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Day Care Center Facilities

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Collected By: Arch. Manar Mohamed Hassan

Hollis Avenue Day Care Center

Queens, N.Y. James Harb Architects, Andrew Bartle Architects & Jonathan

Kirschenfeld Architects

Whimsical Design Creates Inviting

Neighborhood Amenity

The Hollis Avenue Child Care Center is a new,

glazed-brick cavity wall and steel-framed

building that provides a much-needed range of

preschool, after-school, and summer programs

for 115 neighborhood children.

The playful brick textile pattern wraps,

envelops, and shields the activities of the

children from the very noisy avenue and cold

north winds. Six classrooms are oriented towards

the south-facing playground in the courtyard

with the balance of the program filling out the

urban edge.

The rear wall of the building is made of light

aluminum sections, which begin as an elliptical

frame for the rooftop playground and garden and

then drape down the south wall almost reaching

the ground. Landscape elements invade all four

of the surfaces that form the cubic rear court.

While the scale of the project is large and bold

on the avenue, it then fragments into smaller

elements on the side street that blend with the

landscape and the modest frame houses of the

neighborhood. The curious "sentry box" entry

sits along this edge and welcomes the childen

and staff to a double-height, light-filled vestibule

that serves as a connection to the court area.

Colors

Birkdale Childcare Centre Scarborough, Ontario, Canada Teeple Architects

Inc.

A modestly scaled facility shows

appreciation for its natural context

This childcare centre is situated

along a ravine, in a park of suburban

Toronto. The building is oriented to

the ravine edge to take advantage of

light and views, mimicking its

natural contours. The centre is seen

as a conceptual extension of the site

itself—a topography for play.

Designed to produce minimum

impact on its surroundings and to

make visiting like going to the park,

this childcare centre provides a

pleasurable experience in a young

child’s life.

Long, low roofs of glu-lam beams fan from a post and beam screen wall to a stone and stucco wall opposite the

ravine. These roofs extend the form of the ravine into the structure of the building. The idea of the building as a part

of nature is expressed in the twin "tree" columns, which carry the roof over the main playroom. As an entry to the

Birkdale Ravine, the building provides an ideal vantage point for children to explore and learn to appreciate nature.

Bay windows allow toddlers to enjoy views of the park and playground. The exposed wood structure provides a rich

textural backdrop to all the playrooms.

Fawood Children’s Centre Alsop Architects London, UK

The new Fawood Children’s Centre

provides, under one roof, a nursery for 3-5

year olds, nursery facilities for autistic and

special needs children, and a Children’s

Centre with adult learning services.

The primary structure is a trapezoid shed

enclosure, which takes the form of a steel

portal frame structure with a deep

overhanging roof, formed of a mix of opal

polycarbonate roof cladding and bright

pink powder-coated profiled steel cladding,

on galvanised steel purlins and portal

frame.

Mothers' Club Family Learning Center

Pasadena, California, UNITED STATES The mission of the center is to help

prepare families living in isolation and

poverty to succeed in school and in

life through two-generation learning.

Through the dedication and innovation

of the project team this mission was

fully supported and enhanced through

its new LEED Gold facility.

Satuvakka daycare centre

Heikki Lamusuo ARCHITECT SAFA

Finland

Daycare

Robert Gordon University nursery

Halliday Fraser Munroe

Scotland (Aberdeen)

Nursery

Munich nursery school Ottman Architects

Germany

Nursery

First National Child Development CenterOmaha

Nebraska

UNITED STATES

Joseph Lang ,Jeffrey Dolezal ,Robert Krupa ,Crystal Kelly ,Steve Selting

The building's scale is visually

broken down through a series of

changes in horizontal/vertical

planes.

The rear playground is bounded by the building and the interstate.

The soaring roof forms become exterior play

canopies as they cantilever outside.

Large atrium with full glazing wall

allows natural light to enter into the

interior space.

Curved playground gates gives visual

way to atrium space beyond.

Sunshine Kindergarten Zhongshan, CHINA

Sections

Elevations

Entrance bridge

Pool

Nussackerweg kindergarten Bernd Zimmermann

Germany

Nursery

Bubbletecture Maihara KindegartenWinner of the competition

Shuhei Endo

Japan

RozO Architecture Landscape Environment

France/Reunion Island

Nursery

Tetra Pak Nursery

D'Hondt - Heyninck - Parein Architecten

Belgium

Daycare Centre

Spruce Street Nursery School Boston, Massachusetts , United states

3,700 sf space in a downtown hi-rise for a new

location of an existing nursery school program.

The design’s open floor plan and use of color and

light support the school’s mission of educating

toddlers and pre-schoolers.

Bolles Wilson-Frankfurt 1989

ADHARSHILA VATIKA, NEW DELHI, INDIA

A Kindergarten school has been designed with an attempt to form it as an educational tool with emphasis

more on visual education, which keeps them learning by analyzing and observation, a process where they

learn with fun.

The classrooms area not closed rooms but having big windows overlooking the corridor and the exterior

spaces which form a visual link between two spaces where children from different class and parents can have

view of classroom activities, expanding the volume of teaching areas.

Kindergarten #911, Moreno Argentina 2006

It is proposed that children learn

playing with and in the places, the

building forms in its interior and

exterior and with the building

itself, that they discover different

textures, corners, etc., all the time.

That the building be at children

scale, that it be fun and colorful, of

story-book quality.

The school is designed by curved

forms to contain the children.

Those curves form different

corners in all space.

A small amphitheater is used at

story-telling time.

The ceiling here is lower and it is

used for hanging mobiles and toys.

There are windows in the ceiling

like a direct lighting fixture over

the column (science tree).

Bottles and jars with lids are

embedded in the walls so that the

sun reflects through the glass with

different lights. Things like toys,

treasures …. Site plan

Roof plan

Entrance portal

Rooms Amphitheatre

Playground entrance

Sjolander da Cruz Architects

England (Birmingham)

Nursery

References

Architectural record magazene

Arcspace.com

http://www.designshare.com Design share (designing for the future of learning)

http://www.alsoparchitects.com/

http://www.childreninscotland.org.uk

Further Projects

• Suruga Kindergarten

• Els Colors Nursery school

• Nursery School at Töllergraben, Kapfenberg

• NDNA, London Regional Centre

• Montessori Children's Center

• Haus für Kinder (House for Children)

• Nursery School in Creixell

• Sous-Mont Nursery School in Prilly

• Children's School in Sondika

• Nido Stella, Nursery School in Modena

• Nursery School - Kindergarten - A Garden for Children

• World Classrooms

• The Little School

• Templestowe Park Primary School Multi-purpose Hall

• Kindergarten Alsdorf

• Nursery School in Polinya

• Kindergarten Nussackerweg

• Sunrise - Scool

• Kindergarten Zentral I y II

• Kindergarten Bevaix

• Fawood Children's Centre

• Kindergarten in Reutlingen

• Once upon a time... La Ratonera (The Mousetrap)

• Kindergarten Aaremätteli

• Bubbletecture M

• KIGA Kindergarten St. anton am Alberg

• Day Care Centre

• Kindergarten in Orestad

• Kindergarten in Caesaria