Child Care Center
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Project • By Zwarthout l Shou Sugi Ban • Nurseries
Primary school and childcare KC Meerdijk
Set within a green residential environment, this public building designed by RAU architects demonstrates how material performance and architectural expression can reinforce one another. The building’s monolithic appearance is defined by Yoroi; a deeply charred bamboo façade developed for projects where aesthetics, durability and certified fire safety are equally essential.
Powerful architectural identityThe façade creates a calm yet powerful architectural identity. Its dark, tactile surface allows the volume to merge naturally into the surrounding landscape, while the refined markings of the charred bamboo introduce depth, texture and subtle variation. Under changing daylight conditions, the carbonised surface develops... More
Project • By Dietger Wissounig Architekten • Urban Green Spaces
Multi-generational care Knittelfeld
The existing state care centre in Knittelfeld, Austria, was renovated by Gem. Wohn- und Siedlungsgenossenschaft Ennstal, a non-profit housing and settlement cooperative, for Volkshilfe Steiermark, a non-profit social services organisation. The work also includes a new two-storey care home and a childcare facility. Designed by Dietger Wissounig Architects, the project brings together the carefully upgraded existing structure and a contemporary extension to form an integrated, multigenerational complex.
David Schreyer
David Schreyer
Dietger Wissounig Architects
Care home layout and resident experience
The new care home houses three residential communities, providing 45 beds in total, complementing the existing care ho... More
Project • By NEXT architects • Primary Schools
Cartesius Child Centre
In the brand new Cartesius neighborhood in Utrecht, a sustainable child center, with primary school, daycare and sports hall will be built, where students and athletes will live longer and happier. The winning design by NEXT architects from Amsterdam and Christensen & Co from Copenhagen is a compact, nature-inclusive and future-oriented building that plays an active role in the lively district. The combined program is organized in one flowing spiral movement around a green heart. School, daycare, and sports hall operate independently, but also together under one roof, as one gesture.
The Cartesius neighborhood is designed according to the Blue Zone concept: a healthy lifestyle and living environment that is derived from the five areas... More
Project • By Anat Herman Architecture and Interior Design • Care Homes
Moments- Early age and Family Center
Anat Herman Architecture & Interior design designed "Moments". 220 sqm Early age and Family Center at Ramat Gan,Israel. Moments is a developmental playhouse for ages birth to threeThe design concept for the complex was "a moment of silence", an enveloping, educational and embracing place that will be a nurturing and challenging place for moments of meeting and interactions between parents and children.
Tamir Rogowski
Tamir Rogowski
Tamir Rogowski
The delicate soft childish color palette instills a feeling of a dream,in combination with the use of round and amorphic lines that are reflected in the design elements, the special ceilings and the floor in different colors and shapes, the combination of... More
News • News • 29 Aug 2021
Child Care Center by Equipo de Arquitectura develops courtyard typology into a sensitive, introspective space for early childhood learning
The Child Care Center in Villeta, Paraguay by Equipo de Arquitectura is an introspective, inward-looking construction and an incubator of the very life that takes place there. On the outside, earth volumes hide and protect the interior. On the inside, quite the opposite occurs.
Federico Cairoli
The Center comprises 4 larges spaces: two classrooms, which are further subdivided into two classrooms each, a dining room and an administrative area. Each space opens directly to a central open courtyard, visually communicate with the environment, eliminating the concept of the classroom as a closed space.
Federico Cairoli
This central courtyard, which functions as the children's play area, is a focal point of the ensemble. It is a meeti... More