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A former schoolhouse has been repurposed into a human resource development center with the aim of producing great talent. The facility, called the ICI Camp, has finally opened its doors.
The ICI Camp works as a learning center that encourages each individual’s growth; as a living space that supports users’ everyday meals and lifestyle; and as a networking hub where people with great potential can connect with professionals in their fields.
Aside from these functions, an adaptive space for exploring various future possibilities, called VOID, has been incorporated into this facility, making it a next-generation human resource training center.
Here at the ICI Camp, all with high spirits are welcome. Come together to improve yourself and take joy in discovering new ways of thinking. Occasionally unwind, cultivate new relationships with other trailblazers and uplift each other.
An ample wooden deck connecting the ICI Lab and the Camp also serves as a community space. Many ICI users and visitors passing through this terrace, cross paths and make the most of these fortuitous encounters.
This Ki no engawa (wooden veranda) epitomizes the design concept of the Camp, “open-plan space without divides of any kind.” This area, boasting a seminar room, the restaurant and kitchen, links all the facilities organically.
The gymnasium that still retains traces of the former school has been turned into a vast multipurpose facility. Users can use this facility for any purpose, such as playing sports and physical exercise for recreation.
These streets crisscross in the midst of the entire facility. The intersection serves as a hub where users meet and mingle. As the names of the streets, the Yokoito (weft) and the Tateito (warp), suggest, the unique fabric of the ICI Camp will surely be woven from here.
The Higashi no kosha (east schoolhouse) has been renovated under the concept of the “harmony of the schoolhouse memories and modern-day architecture. With a wide-open entrance and a seminar room that has been repurposed from a former music room, this building gives users a sense of nostalgia and novelty.
The Nishi no kosha (west schoolhouse) has been designed to reveal the original framework of the school building, so that users can observe the network-like ducts and systematically installed light-gauge steel frames. The old school building has been fully renovated into a meaningful place for study about the structure of the architecture.
The Camp lodging facilities will evolve into diverse, unprecedented space.
The ICI Camp has three types of lodging: the basic lodging for ordinary use, the special lodging for guests, and the experimental lodging. One of the rooms has intentionally been kept empty. The space is called VOID—the room undecided, full of possibilities. Proposals selected in irregularly held competitions are put into practice in VOID. After a certain period of time, a different lodging facility will turn into VOID for upcoming competitions. Through this cycle, the Camp lodging facilities will evolve into diverse, unprecedented space. The key element is VOID.
