ST Nursery was designed by HIBINOSEKKEI + Youji no Shiro, As the number of children has been decreasing recently, the number of brothers and sisters is decreasing in proportion to it. As a result, the children of different ages are not connected strongly.
Photography: Studio Bauhaus, Ryuji Inoue
It is also a problem that the number of children who cannot communicate with others well has been increasing due to above fact. This site is located in the area where we can see this tendency remarkably.

In this kind of area, by using ?connection? as a key concept, we set an environment where the children can feel those around them each other all the time by designing floor planning. In this environment, we also set not only communication space at the end of the entrance where they can see residents in the area and those who graduated from the kindergarten but also the garden classified by age where the children of other ages can see.
HIBINOSEKKEI + Youji no Shiro planned to increase the opportunity where the children can communicate with nature and others while they are playing. It created an environment where they develop communication with others and consideration to others.

As a whole structure, we arranged the buildings as if they were the huts along the river, which had been seen in the area a long time ago.
Photography: Studio Bauhaus, Ryuji Inoue
The roofs are connected and have graded in accordance with direction and function. It provides up and down in space by produc...