Project by Kentaro Komazawa
This project reimagines the school as a greenhouse-like environmental vessel organized between 地 and 天. At the ground, 地 is a pedagogical landscape of embodied learning: messy, loud, playful, and ecological, where students encounter trees, soil, water, and climate directly. At the roof, 天 becomes a quiet, luminous attic for reflective learning through reading, contemplation, and observation, suspended between tree canopy and sky. Between them, a thickened inhabitable facade acts as the active learning zone, where knowledge is tested, adjusted, and transformed through movement, making, and environmental interaction. The building’s envelope is not a fixed barrier but a climatic mediator that creates gradients between protection and exposure, human occupation and nonhuman life. Structure and enclosure are developed together to preserve an open courtyard, support elevated learning spaces, and make environmental processes—light, air, humidity, and growth—visible. The school becomes a spatial instrument for coexistence, curiosity, and multiple modes of learning
