Kids Garden Minami Aoyama

Kids Garden Minami-Aoyama is a 2,200m2 facility that is one of the largest facilities in Tokyo for children from 1 to 9 years old. It is a 4 minute walk from Gaienmae Station and is equipped with a heated indoor pool.

From infancy to childhood, when brain development is most active, children can receive detailed and authentic instruction tailored to each child, including an original early childhood education program developed jointly with Montessori and Shinmekai, and gymnastics and swimming programs supervised by special teams that support Olympians and top athletes.

This facility is a place where you can encounter a wide variety of educational programs both at home and abroad, and the location of Aoyama is a place where various values, races and cultures come and go. We chose "CROSS" as a keyword because of the facility and location, and incorporated the intersection as a symbolic motif into concept design. In addition, it incorporates a mixed Japanese and Western taste to express CROSS. The Japanese elements, in particular, reflect the owner's desire to "Because we live in a globalized world, I want children to continue to have the good points and identity of Japan even after they grow up." and create a space where children can naturally come into contact with Japanese culture.
We have created a space that is both safe and stylish by making full use of our company's know-how, which has been cultivated at many construction nursery schools.


[Social Issues/Customer Issues/Requests]
As a new private facility for child-rearing support, there was a request that the theme of the facility should be "Japanese culture," assuming that the safety and design of the facility should be compatible, and that foreign nationals will be the users and visitors due to the characteristics of the location.


[Solution]
As the essence of Japanese culture, we incorporated noren, traditional patterns, and traditional Japanese colors into the Spatial concept design to create opportunities to experience Japanese culture on a daily basis.
In order to contribute to child-rearing support, in order to differentiate itself from the typical concept design space for children, we created a unique concept design with the concept of "Japanese culture" and created a contact point with Japanese culture from childhood.


[Customer Comments]
This is the largest facility in our company's history, but I think we were able to express a unified concept with high-quality concept design. We were able to proceed to the opening without any problems thanks to flexible correction and compliance with the construction schedule.


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