Fukumasu Base / Fukumasu Kindergarten Annex by Yasutaka Yoshimura Architects

Photographer: Yasutaka Yoshimura

An extension project for the kindergarten in Ichihara, Chiba. It is aimed to be a community center not only for children but also for their families and graduates. We provided huge air volume to enables children to run around in the building by ready-made tent warehouse, which reminds of the existed warehouse stood in the same site. The tent warehouse also covers the freely folded wooden walls that forms place-like thing. We also tried to stimulate children's imagination by leaving the things like front side and backside of the walls, and even the confliction of the brace structure.

Building area: 512.42sq.m
Total floor area: 684.81sq.m
Max height: 8,470 mm

Yasutaka Yoshimura Architects

Structural engineer: Eisuke Mitsuda Structural Consultants (wooden) / Sanwa-kigyo Corporation / Hasegawa Sogo Sekkei (Steel)
Adviser for kindergarten: HIBINOSEKKEI, Inc + yoji no shiro
General contractor: Hirai Kensetsu

Photographer: Yasutaka Yoshimura