Welfare

The facility was relocated as a place where people with disabilities can experience social participation in a rich natural environment, while meeting the facility's disaster countermeasures and other challenges.

This facility creates an environment where people with disabilities can engage in independent activities and provides support to mothers and fathers.

We aimed to create a livable building that is not an institution, but a residential environment, taking into consideration both communication and private spaces.

A cafeteria, day room, mechanical bathroom, and examination room were newly added. The medical treatment rooms were renovated to meet the needs of the aging community.

The plan is to convert Koshimizu Ryokan, which has operated as a Japanese inn business in Odawara for 470 years, into a facility providing day care services and rental housing for the elderly.

Fee-Based Homes for the Elderly designed around the theme of "Voyage(New beginnings)" to enjoy daily life even after leaving the home you are accustomed to living in.

We considered the second floor as a space for living to match the people’s lifestyles.

An architectural ensemble using locally produced timber was used to create a healing exchange space. We strived to create architecture that gives liveliness and richness to the town.

The architectural form of the building, which resembles a mountain range with a series of semi-gabled roofs, was designed to be culturally rich and relaxed, in keeping with the philosophy of health and welfare.

The plan was based on the basic concept of the social welfare corporation : "coexistence with the local community through interaction between the facility and the community" and "a bright facility open to the community with a sense of peace and tranquility".

The living room, which is continuous to the garden, was arranged to be open to the community. The large square roof symbolizes spiritual shelter for the residents.

The concept is a“cocoon that connotes life”, as it is a place to provide people with ease and to teach techniques.

The one-story structure creates a space where visitors of various purposes, from parents and children to the elderly, can stay and interact with each other.

Since the complex is for handicapped and socially vulnerable people, the basic philosophy was to create a "gentle architecture that does not make people feel alienated.

The idea was to dissolve temporary homes and provide people with security after the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake.

Each waiting hall space is gently lit by sky light and designed with the creation of a comfortable space,

The rational detailing of the segmented continuous roof, which represents "individual and community," was intended to create "architecture as a backdrop" for the various scenes in the residents' lives.

It is divided into three pieces in order to meet the scale of soround domestic residential houses.

The center is designed to be easy to understand and functional, so that citizens can easily receive consultation and actively participate in health promotion and lifelong learning activities.

The interior and exterior design uses home-like scale and materials to create a space that is gentle to people and soothing to the mind.

The grassplot and color of the building were planned to blend in with creating a human scale exterior environment.

Both facilities are designed to be wide and open, light-filled and functional for citizens.

The exposed form of the heavy steel frame structure expresses a youthful sensitiveness, and we strove to create a powerful, elastic, and dignified building.

We planned an artistic atmosphere in which children, the bearers of the future, can grow up with a rich awareness of their hometown, in an environment that includes the Ogisu Memorial Museum of Art and other facilities.