Japan – the most advanced country in the world.
Japanese kindergartens are well known for their minimalist architecture and creative play spaces. We will tell you about designed by the architectural firm HIBINOSEKKEI a nursery in Japan, which demonstrates a perfect learning and play environment that allows to increase the process of preschool education to the level of art.
The most important feature of the kindergarten is its vast green yard with a sloping ramp and play equipment, where kids can run outdoors and climb all sorts of structures.
Inside the building, some areas were deliberately left without any decoration, with walls and ceilings covered with simple plywood, to provide a clean space where children can quietly reflect on your thoughts.
In the garden the transparent walls in some areas, for example in the kitchen, which allow children to observe how they prepare their lunch. For a small person extremely important sensory knowledge of the world. And the more senses involved, the better.
Tucked away in a quiet corner of the game elements such as hidden ladders or suspended ropes, blur the line between training and rest, not leaving anyone indifferent child.
Folding accordion walls to classes and the dining room allow teachers in good weather to make these spaces open, giving children the opportunity to be outdoors and during the classes or lunch, and not only in-game change.
From the outside the building looks fairly nondescript, like a typical rectangular design, hidden behind cold grey facade. The nursery could easily be confused with an office building.
The courtyard is hidden from views from the street, along the external perimeter of the building has almost no Windows. This allows the kindergarten to exist inside of a protective shell, away from the distracting noise of the street.
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