#kindergarten

At the southern entrance to Barbian (Barbiano) in South Tyrol, the Edificio multifunzionale establishes a clear civic presence while remaining rooted in its alpine context. Conceived by Roland Baldi Architects as a compact yet expressive ensemble, the project brings together a kindergarten, daycare centre, children’s restaurant, and tourist office within a single low-energy development. More than a collection of functions, the building operates as a 'green bridge' between mobility, education, and community life. Positioned at a key threshold to the village, the project signals arrival while maintaining a human scale. Its form and materiality reinterpret the region’s timber-building tradition through contemporary construction me... More

Situated on a slope with views of Puerto Varas and surrounded by the Andes Mountains, featuring volcanoes and Llanquihue Lake, the Puerto Varas School Kindergarten was designed as an engaging educational space where the architecture serves as a dynamic teacher. Rooted in the school's founding principle "every space educates" we aimed to embody this concept in a three-dimensional environment of exploration, enjoyment, and community, transforming how early learning settings can foster wellbeing, independence, and a bond with nature. Nicolás Saieh Established in 1996, the school has consistently appreciated education in a close connection with its environment — the light, the rain, the community, and the scenery of southern... More

Designed by Budapest-based Archikon Architects, Gyöngyszem Kindergarten is Hungary’s first smart kindergarten, transformed from a panel building with sustainable solutions. Balázs Danyi   From single-storey prefab to smart kindergarten Built in the late 1970s, the ten-storey panel residential buildings of the Gyöngyösi Street housing estate in Budapest’s XIII District surround a tree-lined green promenade. These prefabricated “panel houses” (panelház in Hungarian) were mass-produced concrete apartment blocks built across eastern and central Europe from the 1960s until the 1980s. Along the promenade are a number of small retail buildings, a nursery, a kindergarten, and a schoo... More

Located in the southern part of Újbuda hills, between the prefabricated apartment blocks from the socialist era and a modern housing area of real estate developers, Madárhegy has been populated mainly with small garden apartment buildings in the last ten years. Many of the new residents are families with children, so there was a significant demand for children's facilities. Recognising this, the municipality has planned a development including a nursery, kindergarten, a paediatric clinic and a public playground. The architects and landscape architects wanted the design to evoke the original grove feel of the site. Thus the "children's grove" was born. Balázs Danyi The site is divided into functional courtyards by... More

The Industrial and Technological Park in Bydgoszcz is one of the largest in Poland, covering an area of 286 hectares. There are over 5,000 people employed in 180 companies located in the Park. The six-unit kindergarten with sport and art facilities and a rooftop meteorological observatory was built for the children of people working in the Park. Filip Domaszczyński Filip Domaszczyński Filip Domaszczyński The single-story building is about 1,600 square meters and provides a places for up to 150 children. It is located on a flat plot surrounded by an industrial forest. The simple blocks with characteristic house-shaped windows were meant to peek out from behind the tree trunks. However, this did not happen. In 2020, during the... More

The renovation of the Benfica Kindergarten, a building originally dating from 1995, sought to improve the building's performance by correcting pathologies, renewing the infrastructure networks, making it suitable for use by people with reduced mobility and improving safety conditions, particularly against fire. Carolina Delgado Carolina Delgado Volumetric reinforcement of the existing “object”In terms of urban image, the aim was to reinforce the relatively simple volumetry of the existing building by treating the volume in monochrome, which differentiates the equipment from the visually disorganized urban context. A unitary treatment was proposed for the whole complex by choosing a single shade for walls, roofs and op... More

Kunshan Huaqiao, a key area in the Yangtze River Delta, has quickly transformed into a modern district with a global outlook. The client aims to establish a standout architectural feature, the Sky Castle Kindergarten, to showcase the area's openness and diversity while enriching spaces for children’s learning and play. Inspired by the expansive sky, our design features "cloud" shapes that create a unique “Sky Castle” for kids, providing a sense of shelter from the surrounding high-rises and potential future developments. Arch-Exist Arch-Exist The design includes various outdoor activity courtyards linked to classrooms, topped with a hyperbolic roof that resembles clouds, and a white façade that complement... More

David Schreyer Flowing Spaces for Children - optimal integration of open concept & architecture The foundations and skills for learning are laid in the earliest years of a child’s life. Learning is an incremental process. In this vein, the project emphasizes the cultural value of construction and the importance of education, while encouraging the community to make substantial investments in educational facilities. tagger3architektur tagger3architektur The project entails a 2-group open-system kindergarten with all-day care. The single-story building is designed so that the planned expansion of the kindergarten to a three-group facility at a later date is independent of ongoing operations. The appropriate common ar... More

Unity Preschool is a non-profit Emilia Reggio inspired kindergarten, nestled within the confines of a conventional office building in Hangzhou. Serving as a beacon of support for double-income working families in the surrounding underserved community and those with multiple young children, Unity Preschool offers essential daycare services and additional childcare support. Studio Jia was commissioned to design the school campus, encompassing programs including classrooms, libraries, a central piazza, school kitchen, art studio, office space, performance stage, meeting rooms, reception area, café, and multi-function room. Lvqiu Photography Lvqiu Photography Lvqiu Photography Lvqiu Photography At the project's essen... More

The project lot, located within the block between Via Pietro Giuria, Corso Massimo D'Azeglio, Corso Dante and Via Tiziano Vecellio, until a few years ago housed an elementary school that was recently demolished, due to both the obsolescence of the prefabricated structure and the very limited capacity of the spaces to adapt to new educational needs. The new nursery is conceived on the importance that space, the "third educator", exerts in the individual and social growth of girls and boys, valuing both the spaces dedicated to them and the participation of adults as a fundamental element in the growth process within the children's center and the family.  The designed building presents a courtyard layout with the entrance located on the... More

The building intended for nursery and kindergarten was designed in 1966 by Arch. Martino Chiuminatto and Eng. Mario Ricono, who also supervised the structural design of the building, which was completed and tested in 1969. The building is presented as a single slatted building, placed perpendicular to the line of maximum slope of the land, and thus has a basement floor (free valley front and completely buried upstream front), a second floor that becomes a kind of ground floor upstream, and a second floor (volume emerging from the single sleeve of pitched roof). The main access is from the south, from the municipal road, via a steep asphalt driveway. Caption The architectural design provides for the integration of structural reinforcem... More

The Sant'Anna School Pole creates a new centrality that, as a real reference point, constitutes an independent attractive core, in connection with the historic village through the enhancement a light mobility path that touches the main points of interest in Bevagna. The disused school buildings could be reinserted into the system, verified the possibility of securing them for temporary activities and installations, at least in the exterior and front parts. Working on the identity reference to traditional rural architecture, the complex is laid out on the slope, constituting an urban edge to the countryside and delimiting a large linear public space that gently settles, protecting access to the school. The street is envisioned as a rue escol... More

The municipality of San Vittore, already marked by the caesura of the Cantonale road that abruptly divides the historic village from the next conurbation to the south, suffers from the fraying created by residential expansion in recent years.  The project proposes the new school complex as a counterpoint identity element to the Pala Tower and works on the stitching together, redefining a centrality through the redevelopment of the public area in front of the cylindrical tower of St. Lucius Church, extending to the gymnasium and Basketball court. Caption Settled to the northeast of the intervention lot, the building defines a new square by placing itself in relation with the former Administration building (which is imagined redev... More

KOFA KINDERGARTEN is a school renovation project located in 1st Zhuxiang Road Futian District, Shenzhen, which covers an area of more than 3600 square meters. Its predecessor is Xiangshan Kindergarten which was built in the 1990s. The functional area in Kofa Kindergarten has 12 standard classrooms, plus a fitness room, a Gourmand workshop, a multi-functional reading hall, an immersive science and technology museum, a circular runway, a unique sand pool, and a LEGO workshop etc. Su Zhewei / Arch Exist As the starting point of children’s education, kindergarten is an important foundation to groom children’s aesthetics and creativity during their learning and growing process. The main purpose of our design is therefore focuse... More