Einosato Nursery School / Shogo Iwata

Architects: Shogo Iwata
Location: Hyogo, Japan
Building Area: 781.82 sqm
Completion: 2011
Photographs: Ogawa Shigeo , Araki Yoshihisa

   

“A big house” to live in together
Einosato nursery school was built for 90 children in Hyogo, Japan. Outer wall of this wooden one-storied nursery school is made with black painted cedar clapboards. Its several rooms for children are arranged to surround playground. A one-sided stream roof put on these rooms brings not only the symbolic characteristic and spatial continuity as “a big house” but also intimacy for small children.