ABSTRACT
Home for All, began by Kishin no Kai, with intention to empower disaster-affected individuals to get back on their two feet. Beyond Home for All's role in disaster relief, Toyo Ito also sees project as a way of reviving local culture and fostering a means for communities to contribute to rebuilding, feeding back into further ideas for ways in which contemporary architecture can support society. The first Home for All, a community centre serving temporary housing in Miyagino district of Sendai, was designed by Ito with Hideaki Katsura, Kaoru Suehiro and Masashi Sogabe and built in October 2011. In spring 2015 a Home for All was completed in city of Soma, an indoor play park for toddlers and young children, designed by Tokyo-based Klein Dytham architecture (KDa). Home for All has now become a Japanese non-profit organization (NPO) in order to create and oversee a network to link all its buildings, to continue funding activities that take place in them.
