Schools in Japan are in a period of major transformation as birthrates drop. Many are faced with fewer applicants or even fall short of full enrollment, leading to fierce competition among schools and creating an urgent need for faster, more efficient school administration and for differentiation in educational services.
Curricula themselves are also becoming more diverse, with changes in educational policies to offset a decline in student performance levels, plans to merge middle and high school levels, and the addition of general science courses, among other factors.
The essence of education is the careful nurturing of each person’s strengths and potential, while contributing to their character formation.
Planning educational facilities is a matter of giving tangible shape to the spaces where such programs are carried out, but they must be more than merely study places. Our mission is to devise places that take advantage of the natural and societal environments in which a school is located, and where individuals know themselves while gaining the experience of cooperation.