Fuji Kindergarten – Takaharu Tezuka – Weekly Dose of Quirkyness

I was turning on the TV and from a rerun on Malcolm X and Martin Luther King on Al Jazeera, I switched to the channel of NHK World.
There’s a talk show going on with their guests looking so humble and simple in their fashion.

Later I found out that both of them are architects, brilliant and award-winning architects and get this, husband and wife! So down-to-earth how is that possible? So inspiring!
Oh, such a #relationshipgoals !

And their designs are very zen, I love it. I am just so inspired by a couple like this! Amazing.

Modern Architecture: A Visual Lexicon

Fuji Kindergarten is a school located in Tokyo with an unusual oval shape. The architect, Takaharu Tezuka, wished to build a children-friendly learning environment where spaces are created not to control circulation, but to be explored by curious “monkeys”: spaces where they can run and play, get slightly wounded, and learn to live along with others. Therefore, there are no walls dividing rooms of different uses, and only movable panels are installed along the periphery to give minimum restrictions on the classroom arrangement, along with a series of portal furniture. The especially low ceiling height and reduced use of fences connected the roof to the ground level, and together with tailor-made climbing structure around the tree, the kindergarten has provided plenty of exploration opportunities for children to have an enjoyable school time.

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