Our client approached our studio excited by our work on the Mater Hospital Special Care Nursery, and wanting a similarly personal approach in a public setting, to transform the run-down church into a nurturing and inspiring place for children to learn, play and grow. Keen to harness our residential expertise, our client’s brief was to create a space that would feel like a second home for the centre’s little inhabitants.

We set out to create an imaginative, stimulating, out-of-the-box, yet calming and kid-friendly space, that would encourage exploration and fun while steering clear of plastic-fantastic materiality and headache-inducing colour palettes.

Design Principal: Alexandra Kidd 

Lead Designer: Jessica Gombault

Photographer: Pablo Veiga