Nagoya International Junior High School Nagoya International Senior High School

Nagoya International Junior High School
Nagoya International Senior High School

Apparent size is minimized by using a segmented design.

Founded in 1948 as Koryo Senior High School, Nagoya International Senior High School along with the Nagoya International Junior High School which was newly-established in April 2003 is now able to provide education from the junior through to the senior high school level, centering on the educational policy of fostering human resources able to perform on the international stage. The old school building was built by the founder of the school, Yuichi Kurimoto, and the design had the deep feeling of being supervised by him. Unfortunately it had to be pulled down because of earthquake-resistance problems, and a new school building built in its place.
The 7,600-square-meter square-shaped site is located in the eastern part of Nagoya City, rather close to Gokiso subway station, and faces residential land on the opposite sides of all four roads around it.
Centered on a large tensioned chord beam roof which resembles a time-honored Nagoya "cicada kite," there is a cluster of ordinary classrooms on the southern side, and a cluster of special classrooms on the northern side. In consideration of the local residents, the building has been designed on an angle of 45 degrees to the site, and there is a sense of segmentalization with a human touch. The systematic structure of the classroom clusters deeply draws in the surrounding nature like a fiord or loch, while maintaining a suitable distance between the school buildings and the nearby residences.
The atrium composed of glass facade

Placed in a unique angle

The multipurpose hall

Because the inside space is where these growing students spend most of their time during the day, it has been designed to create a "comfortable and exhilarating space" like a warm city. There is an "atrium like a theater" where students can mingle, a "student lobby intersection" where the students in the different years can meet, and front rooms attached to all the classrooms, all designed to make for comfortable communication between the students in a clear hierarchical space. There are also large, bright ordinary classrooms like living rooms, cookery rooms like restaurants, and science laboratories like advanced research laboratories, presenting exhilarating space for study at every turn. This design draws a clear line from conventional school building architecture where the school was a place where just uniformity of operation and purity were considered good, and ranks this school as a place providing hospitality and diversification to students and guardians alike.

Client .Kurimoto Educational Institute

Location 1-16 Hirojihonmachi, Showa-ku, Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture

Design/Construction Takenaka Corporation

Structure Reinforced Concrete, and Steel

Number of floors 3 fl. above and 1 fl. below ground

Building area 4,126m²

Total floor space 10,347m²


Founded in 1948 as Koryo Senior High School, Nagoya International Senior High School along with the Nagoya International Junior High School which was newly-established in April 2003 is now able to provide education from the junior through to the senior high school level, centering on the educational policy of fostering human resources able to perform on the international stage. The old school building was built by the founder of the school, Yuichi Kurimoto, and the design had the deep feeling of being supervised by him. Unfortunately it had to be pulled down because of earthquake-resistance problems, and a new school building built in its place. The 7,600-square-meter square-shaped site is located in the eastern part of Nagoya City, rather close to Gokiso subway station, and faces residential land on the opposite sides of all four roads around it. Centered on a large tensioned chord beam roof which resembles a time-honored Nagoya "cicada kite," there is a cluster of ordinary classrooms on the southern side, and a cluster of special classrooms on the northern side. In consideration of the local residents, the building has been designed on an angle of 45 degrees to the site, and there is a sense of segmentalization with a human touch. The systematic structure of the classroom clusters deeply draws in the surrounding nature like a fiord or loch, while maintaining a suitable distance between the school buildings and the nearby residences.	The atrium composed of glass facade Placed in a unique angle The multipurpose hall

Because the inside space is where these growing students spend most of their time during the day, it has been designed to create a "comfortable and exhilarating space" like a warm city. There is an "atrium like a theater" where students can mingle, a "student lobby intersection" where the students in the different years can meet, and front rooms attached to all the classrooms, all designed to make for comfortable communication between the students in a clear hierarchical space. There are also large, bright ordinary classrooms like living rooms, cookery rooms like restaurants, and science laboratories like advanced research laboratories, presenting exhilarating space for study at every turn. This design draws a clear line from conventional school building architecture where the school was a place where just uniformity of operation and purity were considered good, and ranks this school as a place providing hospitality and diversification to students and guardians alike.

Client	.Kurimoto Educational Institute
Location	1-16 Hirojihonmachi, Showa-ku, Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture
Design/Construction	Takenaka Corporation
Structure	Reinforced Concrete, and Steel
Number of floors	3 fl. above and 1 fl. below ground
Building area	4,126m²
Total floor space	10,347m²