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Toranoka Nursery // TYO Takashige Yamashita Office Year of completion: 2016 A neighbourhood nursery located at a site with a spectacular view of the famed Mount Fuji is made up of just a few houses and farms, giving it a peaceful feel. As a new community space providing a nursery area for the local residents and children. The roof is lightly arranged in different perspectives, opening around all likely orders to allow physical and visual manner from every part of places. Gentle curving of the roofs makes an order of scenery, separating garden, lounge, lunchroom, nursing room and office, while the spaces are still reserved attaching as one. A place for everyone under one roof - kids playing around, the elderly takes a rest and mothers chitchatting with one another. The roof is like an impression of a big tree. Precedent study looking on the construction of the roof. How the architect makes the building stands out from far is a very clever way to draw people’s attention into the building. Accommodating for the not only children but also for the local residents.
Figure 3.38 Roof designed in hopes that this small nursery creates a core space for the community, like a big tree Suzuki, K. (2016) Toranoko Nursery / Takashige Yamashita Office. https://www.archdaily.com/805198/toranoko-nursery-takashigeyamashita-office?ad_medium=gallery (Accessed: 9 May 2020)
