Sakuragien – Aomori Elderly Nursing Home / waiwai

Curated by Hana Abdel
RETIREMENT, HEALTHCARE CENTER • MUTSU, JAPAN
Architects : waiwai
Area : 5700 m²
Year : 2020
Photographs : Koji Kobayashi/Spiral
Manufacturers : AutoDesk, Lumion, Adobe, Google, Mutsu Forestory Association, NIPPON STEEL, TOSHIBA

Textual content description offered by the architects. Located in Aomori, on the northern fringe of Japan’s foremost island, this aged middle was designed to carry the pure landscapes which incorporates heavy snowfall within the winter and the tree farms which exist within the space with the delicate wants of the residents.

Though there are numerous debates about Japan’s getting older inhabitants and that the aged depend on the care of public amenities fairly than that of the household. To offer every aged inhabitant a way of individuality, the rooms on the primary flooring are designed to slide into the pure surrounding permitting the inhabitants to benefit from the surroundings among the many bushes and particularly the heavy white snow throughout the winter.

This finger kind radial format can be a design consequence that takes into consideration the consolation of the nursing house staff and ensures their potential to hold out their care of the aged in an environment friendly and sensible method. Therefore the ensuing kind is one which brings nature in between the rooms in addition to meets the purposeful necessities.

Robinson Adey