In Tachikawa, Tokyo, Japan at Fuji Kindergarten complex, Tezuka Architects completed “Ring Around a Tree”. The “Ring around a tree” provides more classrooms and a waiting room for the bus stop. The new about 145 m2 building sited adjacent to the existing school, serves a dual-purpose: It is one the one hand a space for English-language classrooms and on the other hand a waiting station for school buses. The various compartments of the “Ring of the Tree” building is dimensioned for children. The new structure rises to a height of five meters and features a series of small compartments ranging in height from 60 cm to 1,20 m, many of them screened by a metal railing to the inside and outside of the ring. These spaces are connected by stairs and designed for the children waiting for the bus and are thus some of them are accessible to crouching and crawling children.
