日比野設計
幼児の城

Simple in design

We do not over design places and details. Children’s facilities are not amusement parks.

Natural ventilation

A children’s facility is ideal when it is filled with natural sunlight and breeze. We try not to rely on air conditionings and lightings too much.

Bathrooms to be fun places to go.

We try to design the toilets to be places where children can enjoy sunlights and winds, by putting as much as windows. Toilets with no windows may secure the privacies, but children would be scared to go to those dark places.

Comfortable dining rooms and kitchens

Dietary education is an important part of children’s educational development. To support that, we design dining rooms to be comfortable where children can fully enjoy their meals, and the kitchens where the meals are made to be clean and open places.

Natural materials

It is often the case with children’s facilities, to employ chemical, stain-resistant materials for floorings, wall papers and the like. However from the children’s point of view what counts is if the place is comfortable, rather than it stays clean. Natural materials such as wood, iron and glasses have different kind of comfortable feels and scents. We try to use those natural materials as much as possible.

Not to be scared of injuries

We believe that children learn a lot from small injuries. To overthink about the safety when designing children’s facilities may lead to over-parenting.

Uneven floor is fun

Children, with their creativities, find numerous ways of using steps, such as places to sit, places to lean on, places to play and so on. Those activities will also strengthen their bodies.

Variability of the building

As all of us know, the society keeps changing. The number of children is now declining in Japan but it may increase thirty years later. Also with fewer children now, the number of aged population will drop fifty years later. With that in mind, we try to make architecture we design to be able to flexibly change according to the society.