Kids Garden Minami Aoyama

Kids Garden Minami Aoyama is a 4 minute walk from Gaienmae Station, with a private indoor heated swimming pool and a 2,200m2 facility for children aged 1 to 9 years old. It is one of the largest facilities in Tokyo that integrates early childhood education and school children.

Based on a program that nurtures and develops the abilities needed at each age from infancy to childhood, when brain development is most active, experienced and professional lecturers have developed an original early childhood education program in collaboration with Montessori and Shinbukai, and gymnastics and swimming programs supervised by special teams that support Olympians and top athletes.

This facility is a place where you can meet a wide variety of educational programs from Japan and overseas, and the location of Aoyama is a place where various values, races and cultures come and go. Based on the characteristics of its facilities and location, we have chosen "CROSS" as our keyword and incorporated intersections into concept design as symbolic motifs. In addition, to represent CROSS, it incorporates Japanese and Western interwoven taste. The Japanese elements, in particular, reflect the owner's desire to "In this globalized world, I hope that our children will continue to carry on their Japanese strengths and identity as adults." and create a space where children can naturally come in contact with Japanese culture.
By using all of our company's know-how accumulated in a number of nurseries at construction, we have created a space that is both safe and aesthetically pleasing.


[Social Issues/Customer Issues/Requests]
As a new private facility for child-rearing support, there was a request that both safety and design should be achieved, and that the theme of the facility should be "Japanization" in view of the characteristics of its location and the expectation of foreign nationals as users and visitors.


[Solution]
As the essence of Japanese culture, Noren, traditional patterns, and traditional Japanese colors were incorporated into concept design Space to create opportunities for daily exposure to Japanese culture.
In order to contribute to child-rearing support, we conducted a distinctive concept design based on the concept of "Japanization" in order to differentiate ourselves from concept design space, which is a general and average facility for children, and created a point of contact for Japanization from childhood.


[Customer Comments]
This is our company's largest facility ever, but I think we were able to express the high quality concept design and the unified concept. We were able to proceed with the opening of the facility without any problems due to the flexible corrective action and compliance with the construction schedule.


< our company Project Members >
[Sales and Project Management] Kazuya Takada
[design, layout] Matsumoto Mari, Hiruta Ayako
[Sign and graphic design] Ayako Hiruta, Aki Haga
[Production/construction] Kogure Ken, Ichijo Takehiro