TATLIN NEWS #43

architects was determined by the environmen- tal friendliness of the material and simplicity of assembly of additional parts – «boxes» to be used for the children’s games. In general, looking at this project, which is large-scale and at the same time rather cham- ber-style, it is not difficult to understand that in this case the interests of the tenants and harmony with them were top-priority, as it was in the good old times of modernism. That is why there are neither complicated forms that would dominate over the function, expressing the architect’s ideas, nor «super-exclusive» materials. But there is much room and light. And there is an in-house closed world, which though somewhat pathetically gives the op- portunity to understand what should architec- ture do and what should not do at all. object Montessori School Fuji Kindergarten | place Tokyo, Japan | start of design work february, 2005 | end of construction janu- ary, 2007 | building owner Montesoli School Fuji Kindergarten | architects Tezuka Archi- tects, MASAHIRO IKEDA Co., Ltd | lighting de- signer Masahide Kakudate (Masahide Kaku- date Lighting Architect&Associates) | total area 1094.83 sq.m.

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