AM Kindergarten and Nursery were designed by HIBINOSEKKEI + Youji no Shiro, Akune City where AM Kindergarten and Nursery is located is in the northwestern part of Kagoshima Prefecture and is a port town that has a beautiful coast line?which is as long as about 40 kilometers facing the East China Sea. The site is in spacious fallow, which is several hundred meters away from the coastline. In the area around the site that has been the fallow for a long time, there are tall trees producing an environment with full of nature surrounded by the trees.
Photography: Studio Bauhaus, Ryuji Inoue
As this area is near the sea with only 3 meters above sea level and groundwater level is high, the old building has been inundated with water. In nursery facility where children from age 0 are taken care of, inundation with water is highly likely to produce a large danger in evacuation and safety. For this reason, as for the nursing room where the infants stay, we are planning to raise the floor level to the height that is not dangerous for the inundation (middle level as high as 1 to 2 floor).
The infant room whose floor level is raised is positioned in the middle of the building. A variety of spaces with different height are produced by connecting the floor that is as high as this middle level and a different area on 1st and 2nd floor.
Plan
These spaces with different height are connected by 10 stairs with various size, 3 slides, rod for climbing and rope where it forms a circular spa...