Futaba Nursery, named after pair of leaves, are located in city of Abiko where 40 km away from central Tokyo.
Children are often more sensitive than adults can imagine. They learn and feel innumerable things every day. Therefore, It is important that a nursery school to be a place to refine their sensibility. In this project, we proposed a space where children can intuitively recognize the fact that even if you are looking at the same thing, your impression might change depending on your perspective.
Wall on the nursery room and corridor are designed based on the concept.
4 distinctive colours can be seen on the bottom of engraved pattern shaped like leaves. Depending on your height and which direction you are looking at, each leaves show only one of four, and it creates unique mix of colour in total. It allows children can unconsciously recognize and memorize their own growth process.
The width and color of the wall material of the nursery room were changed according to the human scale for each age in order to create a space where you can feel the growth.
I believe that those help children to develop a multifaceted view of the world and a rich sensitivity to understand diversity, through the spatial experience that changes as you grow up.