Kyoto Honnou Nursing Home for the Aged and Kyoto Municipal / Horikawa Senior High School Honnou Gakusha

This multi-purpose facility combines an open welfare facility for the elderly and a traditional high school building, which will carry on urban development on the site of an elementary school close to Honnoji temple in Nakagyo Ward, Kyoto. Making this into a multi-purpose facility provided a place to nurture abundant humanity in high school students, and made it highly transparent and approachable as a center for community and welfare in the district. We listened to the opinions of local people, starting in the design process, and built zushi alleyways on the site to achieve interaction and dialog with local residents. These characteristic alleyway spaces are a familiar features of Kyoto town and are used as spaces that anyone can casually step into. The building design incorporates a tiled roof and lattices, out of consideration for the scenery and street appearance of Kyoto. Using the character of the Honno district, where many residents have engaged in dyeing as a cottage industry, we expressed local character by making noren shop curtains into visual signs in the interior.