To paraphrase the words of a Dutch architect, an experienced designer of schools and kindergartens, Herman Herzberger: the space of a kindergarten/school is both a house, a playground and a small town. These words, we can treat as a brief definition of what is essential in the design of children’s place. On the one hand, kindergarten interiors should be an asylum, quiet place where one can feel like at home, avoid and rest from too many stimuli. On the other hand, space should offer a possibility of various games: for a group and an individual, involving movement and intellectual ones, thanks to which children learn through play and gain new skills.
When children learn in a classroom, they greatly benefit from rich educational content. However, their day-to-day living spaces often remain repetitive and stereotyped.
To address this issue, we avoid the use of static connotations such as “this is a big tree”, “this is a small house”, “this is a small castle”, and rather make use of basic geometric relation that create chaotic, irregular, non-straightforward visuals, prompting children to think about the environment where they live every day and understand it according to their own imagination.
Transparent glass separates a shiny and bright yellow world of joy from the sober grayness of the city outside. Despite being surrounded by a forest of reinforced concrete, its warm atmosphere flows through time and space, favoring the spiritual growth of children. Pony Running, as the name of the brand implies, goes beyond the boundaries of traditional thinking, granting children invisible wings of freedom to move at will, explore and grow in an inspiring mini universe full of possibilities.
Nest within a three-storey space in Sydney’s Alexandria, NUBO – just as its Spanish name meaning cloud suggests – is hard to pin down with its unlimited potential as a creative hub for learning and exploration. Carefully designed and flexibly suited for children from 2 to 8, it offers a stimulating and inclusive learning environment to encourage boundless imagination.
The design of a new eco-kindergarten by LAVA with Module K and Viet Décor features spaces encouraging curiosity, activity-based learning and interaction with nature for the next generation of Vietnamese children.
The kindergarten in Vinh, near Hanoi, Vietnam, unfolds with three semicircular buildings over three levels linked by bridges generating a series of interconnected indoor and outdoor spaces that are playful and safe while making an architectural statement.
Client: Hoo Goong Education Development & Investment
Partner: Module K
Interiors: Viet Décor
Project team: Dong Viet Ngoc Bao, Do Thi Duong Thi, Vu Ngoc Anh, Nguyen Truong Ngan, Cao Trung Nguyen, Trinh Tien Vinh, Bui Quang Khanh, Nguyen Thi Ngoc Hanh, Tran Minh Triet, Nguyen Le Yen Oanh, Pham Duy Bao Long, Nguyen Phuc Anh Thu
Educational Consultant: Great Concept Vietnam Mai Nhung
The “Hello BABY” children’s center is located on the first floor of a residential complex in the central part of the city of Dnipro.
Initially, the architects of SVOYA STUDIO had the task to design a new additional space for the existing center with their own identity. In the process, the name and branding were developed anew by Alexander Sidorenko, according to a new design concept.
Playful learning is at the heart of St. Andrew’s Scots School. For the bilingual IB school in Buenos Aires, Rosan Bosch Studio has created a holistic learning landscape that activates the school’s Scottish heritage and sets the framework for students’ growth and development.
Imbued with characteristic Scottish landmarks, the design creates a learning journey through the flat beaches of the lowlands to the rocky and untamed highlands. Set in Argentina, a lot of the imaginative designs have been customized specifically for the newly built campus.
The school project in Oostakker (Ghent) is part of the school infrastructure investment program «Scholen Van Morgen». The new building replaced obsolete pavilions and container classrooms. It accommodates 260 children in primary school and 140 toddlers in kindergarten. The building programme consists of 7 kindergarten classes, 16 primary classes, a refectory and a sports hall.
The Kindergarten is located as part of a local Armenian community’s school campus in the Northern suburbs of Beirut.
The campus presents a rare green lung in a residential development that has developed in the area.
In a city with little green space, the single floor layout of the design of the Kindergarten provides back to the city its entire footprint under the form of a green roof that blends with its surroundings.
Rebuild kindergarten and nursery project in Fukui, Japan. Mt. Asuwa surrounding this EZ Kindergarten and Nursery was known as the symbol of this town by local people. If children walk around this mountain, they can touch and feel nature itself closer and create plays with such a rich nature. By installing lots of actions which children can take in Mt. Asuwa into playing equipments inside, the normal nursery environment were improved.
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