The given site is located in Suji, a satellite city of one hour distance from Seoul by car.

It is on the foot of middle height hills fronting a swallow valley to the north. The kindergarten has to accommodate approx. 360 children that would needs 18 classes with about 20 children per class.

As a basement, we placed a 23m X 48.5m rectangular low concrete box with diverse ceiling heights according to their needs inside.

The basement is supposed to be a both physical footing and programmatic bonds with above,

18 classrooms and other functions where to be arrayed in five boxes in different sizes and with increasing heights responding to surrounding topography.

These five boxes, this time, are supposed to create a congregative urban image articulating 18 classrooms and the entrance hall.

In consequence, this an encounter with the basement half immersed in the mountain and precise geometric array of the five volumes attached, different types of outdoor spaces are created.