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2015

GOOD DESIGN|グッドデザイン金賞

Award-winning item
elderly housing with supportive services [Wakatake-no-Mori]
Business Owner
Social Welfare Corporation Wakatakedaijyukai
Category
Housing and living space
Company
Social Welfare Corporation Wakatakedaijyukai (Japan)
Yoshida Design Workshop Co., Ltd (Japan)
KENKO ARCHITECTS OFFICE (Japan)
kanemitsu hiroshi design office (Japan)
Japan College of Social Work (Japan)
Award Number
15G090930
Outline of Good Design Award winners
Outline of Good Design Award winners 2015

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Outline

"Wakatake-no-Mori" is an urban like institution, in which adding a clinic and a 24 hours home visiting care support center to the houses with services for elderly people and cooperating with other existing institutes have established the area comprehensive care system. Connecting dwelling units split to lower 8 buildings and a building for common use with an air corridor, this institution realizes "a life near the soil". In addition, the location plan imaging "alleyways", and the changeable dwelling units plan etc. of this institution suggest a way of new elderly care facilities in urban area.

Producer

Kazuo Takeda, Social Welfare Corporation Wakatakedaijukai

Director

Akihiro Yoshida, Yoshida Design Workshop Co., Ltd

Designer

Akihiro Yoshida, yoshida design workshop Co., Ltd + Yasushi Inoue, KENKO ARCHITECTS OFFICE + Hiroshi Kanemitsu, Kanemitsu Hiroshi Design Office + Yukiko Inoue, Japan College of Social Work

吉田明弘、井上康、金光弘志、井上由起子

More information

http://yoshida-dw.com/ydw/wakatakeno_dunitsuite.html

Already in service/use
2014/12

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