School Building Architecture by Takeshi Hosaka in Yokohama-Japan
This is a perfect complex facility named Hongodai Christ Church School & Nursery which is designed by Takeshi Hosaka Architects and located in a green area of Yokohama, Japan. Operated by a protestant church, this high school building is surrounded by playgrounds, parks and small hills, to blend a place for children with the green forest. This school building is placed in the forest as a simple grid by wood frames, where the children spend time, steel frames in the five courts play a part in providing better earthquake resistance, in the wooden construction of transparent grid with wooden frames, wooden floors and wooden sashes. Sliding glass doors are the interfaces between the inside and outside. Sunshine filters through the trees into the building and the breeze wafting through the forest also wafts through the building. Being inside the building is just like being in the forest and the exterior of the building also seems to belong in the building, making it possible for children to act as they like.
Morning service is held in the hall on the second floor, and then the children go to their own places. The children in nursery run through the forest and eat their lunches under the trees. Lessons are held under the sunlight filtering down through the trees and picture books are read in the forest. Takeshi Hosaka says : “This architecture is representing a new idea that how we should build in forest. It is not too artificially controlled, I hope this broad-minded architecture between the natural and the artificial will be the place where children can feel free and be themselves.”
via…[ contemporist ]
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