The kindergarten ‘Dandelion Clock’ educates children with physical or developmental handicaps. Four similar modules form the building, three of which contain two classrooms and a therapy room. Overhangs shade façades and permit outdoor play in poor weather. The units are radially distributed about an atrium, which serves as a traffic zone, an indoor playing field, and a dining hall. This center is naturally lit and ventilated by four roof monitors.
Perspective view (Image Courtesy Constantin Mayer, Köln)
The integrated kindergarten ‘Dragen’ sets new standards, as a sustainable and pedagogically thought-through design. The components are largely ‘Nordic Swan’ eco-labelled. The construction is a certified passive-house, using a minimum of energy. And the children’s needs and well-being has been the main driver in the design.
The fundamental architectural concept is a simple and clear geometric form on two levels, with the children’s areas located in the best-lit southern end. The two levels are linked by staircases and ramps which are designed to stimulate and challenge the children’s sensory and motor skills.
Article source: ABCGarchitettura and Lopes Brenna architetti
URBAN STRATEGY
The proposal for the new kindergarten and multipurpose hall provides to rearrange the lot in question via a solution that has its strength in simplicity, bridging the gap to the free sides of the area: the volume of the school is supported throughout via Nola, while the cube-shaped multipurpose hall marks the public entrance into via Ferri. In this way the volumes effectively reply both to its urban intensity, as public buildings in connection with the city, and to its function of prodrome respect to the internal vacuum. The volume of the school follows the type of its urban surroundings: set back from the road edge for the access and oriented along north-south axis to support the development of the future green line that will go from here till the lake of Lugano. The multipurpose hall chairs the empty neighborhood public gardens by adding to its collective function the one of gate of the park.
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The Kid University in Gandía (UPI) is an experimental initiative proposed by the Municipality of Gandía. The UPI is not a conventional kindergarten, but a group of specialized classrooms and workshops located in a natural setting where kids can develop their creativity and have fun beyond a school context.
Article source: Mamen Domingo and Ernest Ferré, architects
The geometry of the project is at the same time the starting point and the leit motiv which joints all the space. Although it is easily recognizable as a roof, its scale doesn’t answer to what could be expected in a first view. It is a childhood house but it could have any other public use. We wanted it was clearly understood as the first pictures of a house all children draw and, once inside, everybody could discover the surprise of the volume.
Since fall 2010, our “tool Kit” has gone into full use:
AllesWirdGut is pleased to announce the opening of the Ternitz kindergarten: in 2008, our concept of multifunctional circulation areas already convinced competition jurors; now it is working, hopefully, as a fun “tool KIT” for the youngest generation of Ternitz.
The project is located between in an urban area with a residential neighbourhood mainly with social housing for low income families uphill and an area with various public buildings at the lower part of the valley. The elderly day centre is in between these rather different social, programmatic and physical realities, thus celebrating both its private and public character.
The school is organised in three parts. The central and most public area contains the main entrance, the library, gymnasium, refectory, activities and workshop areas, multi-purpose room, school administration and covered playground. These spaces are organised so that they can be used independently by the local community. The library is at the core of the school common areas, connecting the school entrance to the building and to the main playground.
Article source: Studio 16 Architecture PLLC collaboration with Stephen Perrella, AIA
CONTEXT
A complex of design strategies configures the solution for the Preschool at St.Clare’s. The intent was to establish a sense of openness and free play for a program involving the guidance and education of young children. The proposed architecture endeavors to mediate the imposition of authority over developing youth by calling into question the role that architecture plays in structuring a learning environment. The site of the renovation is within an existing and highly active gymnasium on a church campus. The preschool is situated adjacent to the gymnasium within the same structure.
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With the new construction of the kindergarten was opened especially for the existing urban structure into account. The nursery is designed to complement the ensemble of existing vicarage and L-shaped to create a particularly attractive open space for the children. The orientation of the group rooms are to the east, to the morning operation to allow an optimal exposure by the morning sun. A possible extension to a group or a nursery can be made towards the south and is therefore also ideally illuminated.
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