Our design firm Ishida/Crandall is designing the permanent site for the Japanese village at Concordia Language Villages. I worked as a counselor for 4 summers during college, and now my former employer is our client almost 20 years later!

1. Mori no Ike, the Japanese Village
Concept Design
July 2007
Concordia Language Villages
A program of Concordia College, Moorhead, MN

2. Mori no Ike, the Japanese Language
Village
Concordia Language Villages has
initiated a design process to con-
ceptualize and construct year-round
facilities for Mori no Ike, the Japanese
Language Village. This culturally
authentic Village will be situated on
one of the two remaining Concordia
Language Villages sites on Turtle
River Lake, near Bemidji, Minnesota.
In addition to being the site for Mori
no Ike’s summer youth sessions, the
new facility will be used for additional
language and cultural programming
for adults, families and school groups
throughout the year.
Programmatic use of the site is an
integral part of the language and
cultural immersion philosophy at
Concordia Language Villages. The
Village will, therefore, be authentic
not only in its aesthetics and style,
but also in providing a context for
Japanese customs and daily/seasonal
routines.
Design Architect:
ISHIDA/CRANDALL
373 Broadway, suite D8, New York, NY 10013
www.ishidacrandall.com
All rights reserved © 2007

3. Flow of space from outside to inside Multi-functional tatami room: for sleeping, entertaining and studying
Getabako
Geta Kutsu Surippa Kutsushita Surippa
At Home
Getabako
Kutsu Uwabaki Surippa
At School
Hakimono (footware) Rituals Key Concepts

4. Beach
Turtle River Lake
Lesnoe Ozero
Mori no Ike
Les Voyageurs
El Lago del Bosque
Gravel Court Lac du Bois
with Communal
Buildings
Forest Grune Welle
Cottages
Waldsee
Row
Houses Salolampi
Skogfjorden
Buck Lake
Mori no Ike village site photos Mori no Ike village site plan Turtle River Lake site plan
Site

5. Urban Street: Row house cabin type based on Machiya houses with storefronts
Forest Cottages: Cottage cabin type based on Sukiya houses
Cabins

6. Villagers’ cabins look into
courtyard
View from street looking into Candy Store & bank on ground floor, cabins on upper floor
courtyard
Model of Urban Street with Rowhouses

7. Dining Hall (back) & Art / Dojo Building (front)
Model of Gravel Court

8. Model of Gravel Court

9. View through passage in Large Group building into Gravel Court
Night View

10. ISHIDA/CRANDALL LLC
373 Broadway, suite D8, New York, NY 10013
www.ishidacrandall.com tel: 212-343-7028
All rights reserved © 2007
Project Team:
David Crandall, Madeline Hartzell, Karen Holmgren,
Aki Ishida, Jason Lee, Tommy Lindgren