The third teacher. The Reggio Emilia Approach is an educational philosophy that considers that children develop through contact with adults (parents and teachers), with their peers and, lastly, with their physical environment, known as the “third teacher”.
The Maritime Center was one of two childcare centers built specifically to accommodate mothers working in the nearby Richmond shipyards during World War II. Henry J. Kaiser acquired funding from the Maritime Commission under the Lanham Act to build these centers for his workers (the famous Rosie the Riveters), making the Maritime Center one of the first federally-funded childcare centers in the United States. Built as a temporary structure to fulfill a wartime need, the center remained in continuous operation for over 50 years.
The new daycare centre in Valby, Copenhagen, is designed to encourage play and learning through various types of experiences. The new building allows the children to activate and embrace all corners of the building; they can engage in active play on the roof or take a quiet break in one of the small niches around the house.
Baby Sensory is an award winning baby development class designed to support baby sensorial development and has been designed specifically for babies from birth. The baby development activities stimulate the senses and help babies develop. This is the first baby sensory® franchise facility that has been designed for its purpose. Natural sunlight and circulation have been used as guidelines to define the site plan providing many possibilities of use and enjoyment.
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Architects: Architectuur +
Team: Cristina Aquino and Judit Taberna
Project: Baby Peque Kids for Baby Sensory
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Project Owner: Baby Peque Kids
Project Completion Date: October, 2012
Project Type: Education – Early learning activities
Project Site Context/Setting: Urban / Interior design
Building Gross Floor Area: 172,94 square meter
Other Building Description: Renovation
Total project cost at time of completion, land excluded: 80,000.00 €
Article source: Cornell University Sustainable Design
Armadillo Crèche is the design for an early childhood development (ECD) center in Johannesburg, South Africa. It accommodates 80 children and houses a teacher-training center. Standing on an elevated site, the ECD center is a beacon for education.
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The city of Tartu has the goal of implementing high-quality modern architecture in new public buildings. The new kindergarten, which is located in one of the most dilapidated areas of Tartu (the so-callled Chinatown is a former Soviet military garrison), is a result of this policy. The kindergarten´s layout – a six-cornered, star-shaped floor plan forced into a square – arose from the desire to avoid long corridors and to create an orderly outer perimeter and street space for the building. Building is situated on one edge of the plot and leaves the southern side free as a play area.
The new day care center of Göttingen University is the most recent case study of several typological educational prototypes Despang Architekten has investigated in within the last years. The strategy of this project is a symbiosis of architecture and nature with a high ecological standard. The symbiosis was achieved through mainly berming the building and opening it with a passive solar “curtain wall” towards the south. Part of the goal was the development of a by the best value of the inflationary term sustainable building, which besides other performative aspects has a very low heating and cooling demand. Critical and fundamental in the design process was the maximum exposure to the south and closure to the north with optimized insulation. Access to the building is given from the east and utilizes the given infrastructure of the two adjacent buildings.
Architectural design: Despang Architekten (Dresden, Munich, Hannover, Honolulu ( University of Hawaii Manoa, USA) Günter und Martin Despang / project team: Dipl.-Ing. Philip Hogrebe, Dipl.-Ing. Jörg Steveker
Passive house design: RAUMPLAN Architekten und Ingenieure, Hannover (Certified Passive House Designers), Dipl.-Ing. Architektin Stefanie von Heeren mit Dipl.-Ing. M.Sc. Architekt Matthias Wohlfahrt
Structural engineering: Drewes + Speth Beratende Ingenieure im Bauwesen, Hannover
Building services engineering: Ingenieurgesellschaft Grabe mbH, Hannover
Landscape design: Landschaftsarchitektur und Umweltplanung Dipl.-Ing. Gerhard Kohl, Göttingen
The center is a place of care, sharing and coordination of various activities for supporting and relieving handicapped children and their families in the Cahors area. Located on the left bank of the Lot, The “Terre Rouge” district gradually slopes towards the river. A complicated underground where clays and big limestone blocks resist to geometry.
The Giraffe childcare center is located in the C1 block of the Seguin Rives de Seine district in Boulogne-Billancourt, a suburban area of Paris. The program houses a 60 bed childcare center and 20 bed day nursery. The building has been awarded the green “zéro Energie Effinergie” label. This public building is located next to Jean Nouvel’s “Horizons” tower, at the junction between the “Vieux pont de Sèvres” neighbourhood, built in the 70’s, and the new area called “ le Trapèze”.
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