Social welfare home

Sendai Christian Home is ‘The Juristic Person of Social Welfare, which manages the children’s care home for infants to high-school students. It has the history for 90years since the establishment. And the idea is the small group nursing. Based on the activity until now, ‘The Master Plan of Hill-Top Home 2000 Total Welfare Village’ was provided in 1991, ad the welfare purpose has expanded into an old age bracket. This facility is the first stage of the plan.

The site is located on the residential area near the central part in Sendai city, where blesses with the nature region scattered with marsh sediment and trees. It comes out a little steep alluvial fan type with the 20 meters difference of elevation. Facilities had to be compactly placed in the slope to leave existing open space, and it was made to be a three-story building. Utilizing the difference of elevation of the site, the main entrance was established on the third floor of the street level.
Concepts planned with following three ideas.

1. As open facilities in the inside and outside; the wall is possibly decreased in the living space to afford nice views. The courtyard is also to afford views of the top and bottom floors, lighting, ventilation, the mutual and visual communication of tenants and staffs.
2. A realization of everybody lives spaces with normalization; ‘removable wall’ was used for partitions of the private rooms to correspond to various usages.
3. Assuming the barrier free; it was considered to remove all levels differences, and installed protectors on the most corners of doorways.

Gentle and soft ‘space of interface’ in which the native scene of the site remained, as planted method plane was devised so that the RC retaining wall may leave it without establishing for the slope at the outdoor space.

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