This is the third primary school to be designed by C+A in this area, 500 m away from the Utase Elementary School that we designed and that opened in 1996. Many people chose to live in this area because they value the educational activity at Utase Elementary School, and that is why Mihama Utase Elementary School has adopted a similar architectural form. Knowing that the school was to be filled with pupils as soon as it opened, we decided to design by means of acoustic simulation, in order to create open spaces where classes could be held without sound
interferences. As a result, classrooms are located side by side. Assembly space for team teaching/briefing is designed as a
big staircase. Activities, light and air flow above this, across a
surface of flat slabs without expansion joints.

This is the third primary school to be designed by C+A in this area, 500 m away from the Utase Elementary School that we designed and that opened in 1996. Many people chose to live in this area because they value the educational activity at Utase Elementary School, and that is why Mihama Utase Elementary School has adopted a similar architectural form. Knowing that the school was to be filled with pupils as soon as it opened, we decided to design by means of acoustic simulation, in order to create open spaces where classes could be held without sound
interferences. As a result, classrooms are located side by side. Assembly space for team teaching/briefing is designed as a
big staircase. Activities, light and air flow above this, across a
surface of flat slabs without expansion joints.