This project is located on the first floor, Ali Center, Nanshan District, Shenzhen, with a usable area of 122 square meters. The project is designed to create a boutique nursery with immersive English teaching. At the design level, “Maximize Potential” is the pointcut. This means building a spacious scale relationship in limited space, while creating a space full of fun and relaxation.
The intervention stems from the need to equip the current nursery school of the Municipality of Roverbella with an artifact, replacing the ancient already present in the vicinity, dedicated to the hospitality and care of early childhood, for the range from 0 to 3 years. The Asilo Nido “Gli Elfi” proposal has tried, in the economic balance sheet of the parties, to organize the spaces for a Nest that correspond to a capacity of at least 2 sections, commensurate in turn to be suitable to accommodate 30 children.
Once in south China’s Shenzhen, Peninsula Education Group (Peninsula) came forward with a visionary idea of creating a new learning space to help foster the next generation. Peninsula felt the necessity to build a magical place that belongs to children themselves. They believed that a novel and free environment is essential for children to learn new things actively and develop their social skills. One day, among the wild forest of the Whale Mountain, Peninsula had found the perfect place to make this new learning space a reality.
The Hippolytusgarten family centre is part of a new tripartite ensemble. Two new buildings – a parish centre and the family centre – as well as an existing church serve as an open centre for the Catholic community. The constructions are conceived as a unit, in terms of design language and choice of materials and hence create an urban dialogue. On 750 square metres in size, the Hippolytusgarten family centre nestles to the edge of the property in the south and, to the north, it faces towards a protected green area. Indoors, the slat facade is continued in the form of wooden panelling, thus making a connection between the inside and the outside. The building has a bright and open appearance. Warm beech wood and the daylight that enters through the large glass doors, windows and skylights endow the space with its special feeling. The architecture provides a flexible room structure that encourages play. The group rooms can be transformed into theme-based spaces. In the centre, there is the open “marketplace”, a common space and meeting point with integrated breakfast and play area. All group rooms are oriented towards the park.
“It takes a village to raise a child!” – An African proverb that underpins the value of a community being engaged in a child’s upbringing. The diversity of people and places that create it, offering them experiences to grow in safe and healthy environments. However, today in China’s rural areas, more and more children are in the primary care of their grandparents or live in boarding schools. This mass shift in social structure has dissolved some the natural connection between children and their families and communities.
Crossboundaries designed two public kindergartens, commissioned in 2015 by the Fu’ning County Government of Jiangsu Province, who were developing basic local education facilities. One of which was in the jurisdiction of the Shuoji community.
Visiting Shuoji, the imbalance in demographic was evident, stressing the need to bring a balance to the family nucleus living apart. It was this experience that brought the strong recognition from the design team that what was needed here was not just a kindergarten building, but a facility that delivers child-centered spaces that are anchored in the values of a “village”, the responsibility of family, community and society to offer the richest concern on raising a child.
A rebuild kindergarten project in Matsuyama, Ehime.
Recently cars are daily necessities in provincial city and it gets more common children go to kindergarten by bus or car. So they have less chances to take exercises in daily life. An increasing number of children play with video games inside so that they also have less chances to find plays in variegated nature environment by themselves. In these situations, KO Kindergarten is rebuilt with the concept “Make Health from Playing”
Bermondsey Community Nursery has been transformed into a light, bright learning space for pre school children in the heart of Shad Thames. The brief was to completely overhaul the nursery accommodation and increase the number of childcare places for local families.
The completed project relocates the office and staff accommodation into a new extension to create 10 additional child spaces in the main nursery. These spaces are grouped around a maple tree to provide a picturesque and calming focal point in an otherwise busy urban environment.
The educational environment must be a sort of aquarium where the ideas, the morality, the attitudes, the cultures of the people who live there are reflected.
Loris Malaguzzi
The enlargement of the Zanti Infant School in Brescello is born from the Administration's desire to bring together the sections currently located in various municipal offices into a single structure. The idea of the project is the reinterpretation of the stylistic features found in the children's drawings, where the landscape, the simplicity of the geometries and the sun, primary source of illumination and psychophysical well-being, are always represented in evidence. The archetype of the small house located in the green takes shape in two independent volumes, as the number of enlargement sections, with pure geometries and surrounded by the existing park. The sun exposure, the presence of numerous valuable trees and the desire to break down the least possible, generates the rotation of the volume of a section. The result is the creation of opposing overviews where the threshold between inside and outside is very weak.
Aberrant Architecture proposes the creation of an installation devoted to free play in Intermediae. Inspired by the architectural language of the great Dutch playground designer Aldo van Eyck (1918-99), Landscape for Play is a leisure-based proposal that shifts the shapes of the surrounding city to an interior space. To the question of how we can transform the urban space through play, Aberrant Architecture replies with structures, shapes and colours that invite children of all ages to use this new place in an imaginative way. The resulting interior landscape is composed of follies, crevices and different elevations which, although they make up a fantastic territory that Registered Office: 145-157 St John Street London EC1V 4PY. Registered in England No.06483693 can be used by the communities that come to Intermediae each day, don't impose rigid restrictions in terms of how people must behave. This flexibility also means that the playground can be used as a setting for a range of activities during the months when it will be open.
The project CHILHOOD HOME is located in Saint-Genis-Les-Ollières, Rhône, France.
It's composed to a nursery, a recreation center and a maternel assistant's relay.
It was built in a residencial district, at the limit with the town center, and it creates links with others publics equipments. After an urban analysis, which reveals an urban pedestrian network linking the various public squares of the municipality, the project is developed as a continuity of the urban plot with two new public squares in front of each entrance of the equipment and a pedestrian way to link them.
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