Daruma International Nursery by Moriyuki Ochiai Architects

Daruma International Nursery by Moriyuki Ochiai Architects is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 Silver A' Design Award in Interior Space and Exhibition Design Competition Category.

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Daruma International Nursery

by Moriyuki Ochiai Architects

Client: Moriyuki Ochiai Architects

Silver A' Design Award Winner in Interior Category

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The Design

About Daruma International Nursery

Moriyuki Ochiai Architects performed the design for a nursery school. Deliverables included an environment suitable to the school's educational policy, namely, bringing up children both physically and mentally that can think, learn and act on their own initiative. Thus, They set out to create a space that would promote a variety of uses and encourage children to come up with their own games as they would do in nature by recreating geographical features inspired by nature’s most beautiful assets; its colors and lakes.

The Recognition

About the Silver A' Design Award

Daruma International Nursery is a Silver A' Design Award winner, an extraordinarily prestigious recognition granted to top-of-the-line, gorgeous, and impressive designs. Silver winners are tremendously brilliant and exceedingly creative works that illustrate the outstanding expertise, talent, and acuity of their designers. Daruma International Nursery is expected to be a wonderful, showpiece work that is remarkably professional and profoundly innovative. This Silver A' Design Award-winning design is a highly notable, admired invention that benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Daruma International Nursery is a vastly envied creation that evokes desires, introduces positive feelings, and sparks amazement and wonderment.

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Where to Get It

Nature-Inspired Architectural and Interior Design Services

We transform commercial spaces through nature-inspired design that promotes creativity and wellbeing. Our award-winning architecture studio specializes in retail, hospitality, educational, and exhibition spaces. With recognition from prestigious international design awards, we create environments that connect people with natural beauty.

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Behind the Design

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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: Each room features a colorful space with a theme that communicates the energy of nature. For example, the common hall is a "lake room", the 1-year-olds’ room a "cherry blossom room", the 2-year-olds’ a "stratum room", the 3-year-olds’ a "flower. room", the 4-year-olds’ a "sky room", and the 5-year-olds’ a "forest room". Colors representing the flow of water, gorgeous cherry blossoms and flowers, stratified soil, blue skies and moving clouds, green gradations of trees, etc., are used to create vibrant palettes symbolizing natural phenomena.

Toddlers happily wandering through the waves of floating colors are free to spend their time wherever and however they please.
These are spaces where children can develop a rich sensitivity by experiencing color in their daily lives and being immersed in it.

Furthermore, the common hall is a special multiple-purpose room where organically-shaped mirrors dot the entire ceiling like so many lakes, creating a refreshing space that expresses delicate changes in natural light depending on the season and the time of day. This becomes an extension of the natural landscape where the reflected images spread gently, thus making the children fully experience the changing seasons, and creating an environment that enhances the marvels of nature and the enjoyment of daily activities.
Dimensions & Packaging: 440sqm
Tags: nursery,nursery school,kindergarten,nursery design,kindergarten design,interior design,color,mirror,moriyuki ochiai,
Production Technology: Please refer to project description.
Design Challenge: By embedding elements taken from the natural scenery into the rooms, we sought to create a playground that promotes a variety of uses and interactions in the same way the land does.

Our aim was to create a space where children's sensibilities could be infinitely expanded, the individuality of each child could be brought out, and their creativity could be aroused.
Research: Please refer to inspiration and description
Inspiration: We performed the design for a nursery school.
We set out to create a space that would promote a variety of uses and encourage children to come up with their own games as they would do in nature by recreating geographical features inspired by nature’s most beautiful assets; its colors and lakes.
Project Duration: located in Kanagawa , Japan
Operation Flow: Please refer to inspiration
Patents: Moriyuki Ochiai Architects
Team Members: Client:Daruma Corocoro International Nursery__Design : Moriyuki Ochiai,Kirthi Balakrishnan,Jillian Lei,Amit Arunabh__Constructor : Aslego__Special paint : Osamu Yamaguchi__Lighting : Kayo Yokoyama(Koizumi)
Image Credits: Photography:fumio araki