Although our family owned a small boat that ensured my travel to school during the monsoon season I saw many of my friends and relatives could not go, something found difficult to accept. I thought that if the children cannot come to the school for lack of proper transportation, then the school should go to them, by boat.
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Educational architecture: Fuji Kindergarten in Tokyo by Takaharu + Yui Tezuka Architects
We designed a situation where children can find the way to learn themselves.
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This was the first project to be implemented in this town. We therefore wanted the new building to be in harmony with its surrounding environment and not to disturb its atmosphere. At the same time, we also wanted the rebuilt nursery to be a monument for reconstruction and to have a grand presence, evoking both unity and eternity.
Continue readingEducational architecture: a kindergarten in Atsugi/Japan by Taku Hibino
Since a kindergarten is an educational facility and is a place of the human basics formation, I think that there is not the change in what is demanded basically. Rather it is a concern to make a kindergarten which is too conscious of the technological innovation, we have alarmed against it.
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