Nursery in Komagome

駒込の託児所 / Nursery in Komagome

東京都豊島区に建つ10階建てのビルの２階を託児所にする改修になります。

ビルの寿命が長いとはいえないなかで、比較的に安価に他でも持続可能なパーツによって空間を構成することが求められていました。そこで、主に家具やカーテンで全体を構成し、トイレの振る舞いを捉えなおすことにしました。

通常トイレは隅に追いやるものですが、ここでは中心に配置しそれぞれの場所をくっつける接着剤のような役割を与えています。体内に入ったかのようなピンクに包まれた中で園児は用をたす訓練をし、その色はそれぞれの部屋ににじみ出るようにしています。

手すりをつくる過程で出る木片は壁のタイルへ、棚を作るときに出る端材も椅子へ、大きな固定家具から小さな壁のタイルまで同じ材料でつくり全体に散りばめることで木のリズムを作り出しています。カーテンは外の風景の解像度を適度に落とすように染めつつ、元々同じ一枚の板だった手すりと木タイルは互いに反転と連続の関係にあり、外へ視線を誘導しています。

リトマス紙のように何でも純粋に吸い取ってしまう小さな子供が、液体という空間に楽しく浸れる場所になりますように。

This project is renovation work of the entire floor of one of the 10-story building in Toshima Ward, Tokyo to Nursery space. The site is located on the second floor.

Since we are consider the building is short-lived, it has been required to construct the space with inexpensive and sustainable materials which could be re-contructable in case of transfer to the other places. Therefore, we planned to finishing space only on furniture and curtain works and concentrate point design on the toilet space.

Toilet space is usually located in the corner of the room, but here by placing it at the center of space; we tried to give a new role which is connecting different spaces and functions together. Children are training bowel habit in the middle of a pink space that conjures up the human body, and the colors spreads out and connects to the other spaces.

From the piece of wooden handrail to the wall finishing, and from the parts of bookshelf to the chair, the texture and rhythm of wood is created by using same material from large fixture to small surface finishing. Curtains give different resolution of outside view from inside, and the handrails and wooden tiles, which were originally the same piece of material, are in an inverted and continuous relationship one another, directing the gaze toward outside.

We hope that a small child who absorbs anything purely like litmus paper could enjoy and be immersed in this space.