C.O Kindergarten and Nursery was designed by HIBINOSEKKEI + Youji no Shiro, A construction site is a rural town away about 60 km from Hiroshima is a provincial city to the east, is a region where a population decline goes ahead through. In Japan, a child-rearing facility is insufficient in urban areas. And children are overflowing that they are not put into a child-rearing facility.
Photography: Studio Bauhaus, Ryuji Ino
On the other hand, advance the dilution of the local community in a rural town where decreasing of the population advances. For that reason parenting households become isolation. By this situation, place of providing information to child care, which has been complemented by the local community until now has also been decreasing. And it has caused a sense of anxiety to the childcare, it’s giving an adverse effect on the child-rearing environment.
To solve this problem, we wanted to give a place of exchange with the local community, and to provide a place that allows the exchange of information on child-rearing for young child-rearing families.
Photography: Studio Bauhaus, Ryuji Ino
Specifically, HIBINOSEKKEI + Youji no Shiro planned to add a cafe building that is opened to the community separately from the nursery building. The role of this cafe building to become a place for the parent-child and parent to each other where they could to stop by and take a tea, feel free and promote each other?s interchange at the time of drop off and pick up their...