The site stands in front of the future big re-developing area. The rest of the town is a mixture of low housing, and middle-low large apartment, and agricultural field, and it was a lack of community space for the neighborhood.
On this project, 1,500 square meter site has been divided into 3 and building for disabled people and old people will be constructed step by step as well as providing a community space to merge into the city, which what we call “Courtyard of the city”.
The building of the 1st phase is a daytime supporting facility for disabled people. The position of the building and its small semi-exterior space such as a balcony, rooftop space were designed very carefully in order to connect to the context of the existing city, meanwhile obtaining privacy between the new re-developed area beside.
As the size of this building is slightly bigger than surrounding houses nearby, and it's in between the high-rise re-developing buildings and field, and low housing, we learn the shape of the building from the surroundings in order to merge into the city smoothly.
Each room has a characteristic floor color so that disabled people can easily distinguish each room. The floor level of the first floor is lower than the foundation so as to use the foundation wall as protection from wheelchair crushing and scratching.
Now there are other buildings of phases 2 and 3, and shaping the "Courtyard of the city". We wish, by the time plants grow up big enough and providing shade under it, people get to know this place and there will be a cultural crossing between users of these buildings and neighborhoods or people passing by the street in front.
Material Used :
1. Forbo – Floor finish - Marmoleum
2. Lixil – Floor tile – Gioia stone
3. Tanita – Roof drain – Haco series
4. Sangetsu – Wallpaper – Reserve series
