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架构师提供的文本描述。阿库恩市位于鹿儿岛县西北部，是一条美丽的海岸线，距东海约40公里。这个场地是宽敞的休闲区，离海岸线几百米远。在这个被长期休耕的地方，有高大的树木创造了一个被树木包围的充满自然的环境。

Text description provided by the architects. Akune City where AM Kindergarten and Nursery is located is in northwestern part of Kagoshima Prefecture, and is a port town that has a beautiful coast line、which is as long as about 40 kilometers facing the East China Sea. The site is in spacious fallow, which is several hundred meters away from the coast line. In the area around the site that has been the fallow for a long time, there are tall trees producing an environment with full of nature surrounded by the trees.

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由于这个地区靠近海面，海拔只有3米，地下水位很高，这座老建筑已经被水淹没了。在照顾0岁儿童的托儿所里，水泛滥很可能对疏散和安全造成很大危险。因此，至于婴儿留宿的护理室，我们正计划将楼面高度提高至对淹水不构成危险的高度(中层最高可达1至2层)。

As this area is near the sea with only 3 meters above sea level and ground water level is high, the old building has been inundated with water. In nursery facility where children from age 0 are taken care of, inundation with water is highly likely to produce a large danger in evacuation and safety. For this reason, as for the nursing room where the infants stay, we are planning to raise the floor level to the height that is not dangerous for the inundation (middle level as high as 1 to 2 floor).

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地板水平升高的婴儿房位于建筑物的中间。各种不同高度的空间是由连接到这个中间层的楼层以及一楼和二楼不同的面积所产生的。

The infant room whose floor level is raised is positioned in the middle of the building. A variety of spaces with different height are produced by connecting the floor that is as high as this middle level and a different area on 1st and 2nd floor.

这些不同高度的空间由10个不同尺寸的楼梯、3个滑梯、攀爬杆和绳索连接，形成一个没有死角的圆形空间。因此，孩子们走楼梯上楼，乘滑梯下楼，或者用绳子上到楼上，走楼梯或滑梯下去。就这样，在大楼里，他们不停地上上下下地跑来跑去。

These spaces with different height are connected by 10 stairs with various size, 3 slides, rod for climbing and rope where it forms a circular space without dead end. Therefore, the children go up to upper floor by stairs and go down by the slide, or go up to the upper floor by the rope and go down by the stairs or slide. In this way, in the building, they run around enjoyably by repeating going up and down.

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这种高度和楼梯不同的空间

This kind of space with different height and the stairs & slide that connect them stimulate curiosity and creativity of the children, and increase children’s activity volume in daily life. As the fact that lack of exercise of the children has caused reduction of physical ability is a problem recently, we are considering solving this problem by increasing the children’s exercise volume in daily flow unconsciously. 

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上面的空间

The space at upper & lower part of the middle level and the space under the stairs are the space with low ceiling for adult. However, it is a comfortable space for the children where they can feel ease and safety. These spaces are a warehouse, room for creative activity, section of picture book, play area for all weather (pilotis) and other, which have been used for a variety of purposes.

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AM幼儿园和托儿所是从教堂开始的，一个小礼拜堂是与该建筑一起建造的。教堂是向周围居民开放的设施。我们还计划向他们开放Kodomoen号。具体来说，在入口的空间里，有一个面向厨房的午餐室。周围的居民可以把这个地方当成咖啡馆来参观，来接孩子的父母可以在这个空间里分享他们的时间。

The AM Kindergarten and Nursery started from the church, and a chapel is constructed with the building in the site. The church is a facility open to the residents around it. We are also planning that the Kodomoen is open to them. Concretely, in the space of the entrance, there is a lunch room facing the kitchen. The residents around it can visit this space as a café space, and parents of the children who come to pick up their children can share their time each other in this space.

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(C)Bauhaus工作室，Inoue Ryuji

Architects Youji no Shiro, HIBINOSEKKEI

Location Kagoshima, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan

Category Kindergarten

Area 941.8 ft2

Project Year 2016

Photographs Studio Bauhaus, Ryuji Inoue