Comments on: Day care centre de kleine Kikker / Drost + van Veen architecten

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By: georgiaartikoglou

georgiaartikoglou — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 05:27:54 +0000

Day care centre de kleine Kikker / Drost + van Veen architecten http://t.co/fGYyciUa via @archdaily

By: Haley Montgomery

Haley Montgomery — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 06:57:27 +0000

Really like this building. Color in the facade > Day care centre de / Drost + van Veen architecten http://t.co/re6HWk1m via @archdaily

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Curtains, Window Coverings — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 21:44:04 +0000

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By: The Third Teacher

The Third Teacher — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 18:58:02 +0000

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By: windzerg

windzerg — Sat, 01 May 2010 14:57:50 +0000

simple and elegant~

By: niloufar

niloufar — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:59:11 +0000

have you found the complete plans?

By: kareem karawia

kareem karawia — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:36:13 +0000

Looking at: "Day care centre de kleine Kikker / Drost + van Veen architecten | ArchDaily" (http://twitthis.com/tp7m8j)

By: danada

danada — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 11:22:05 +0000

i need complete plans please

By: Stephen

Stephen — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:29:20 +0000

I have one child, one on the way, and 8 nieces and nephews so I know quite well that children will find ways to hurt themselves – that doesn’t mean we should be carefree in our designs by introducing sharp edges that aren’t necessary for a daycare design to be successful. There are such things as recessed fire extinguisher cabinets, benches with rounded edges, etc.

I have nothing against the colors – in fact I think they’re wonderful for the children in the same respect that you indicate – that the children would probably draw with the same colors.

‘m simply making an observation that for a daycare it appears to have more sharp edges than necessary for a successful design. Not having sharp edges in a daycare has nothing to do with pampering a child, it has to do with protecting someone else’s investment which is the daycare’s responsibility – hence the word “dayCARE”.

By: Seek

Seek — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 08:10:10 +0000

I take it you don’t have children? No matter what you do, children will find ways to hurt themselves. If you pamper them too much, they will fall that much harder in unfamiliar places.
The one thing I’ve learnt from my kids is that they respond best by being taken seriously. Of course you try to protect them best you can, but, in my case at least, that did not mean replacing all the furniture in my house with rounded stuff and I don’t expect my daycare centre to do that either. I expect them to look after my children and create an environment where they feel at home. A building like this accomplishes that by playing into the imagination of a child (the front is precisely how a child would draw a house, the colours in the facade are a wonderful idea, imo).

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By: Stephen

Stephen — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 13:37:28 +0000

…”very few “sharp edges”"??? Look at the photo of the 4 toddlers on the balcony – the wooden bench has a sharp edge around it’s entire front perimeter, the galvanized metal railing has sharp vertical edges, the concrete stairs have sharp edges at the last two steps, the little bench behind the stairs has 4 sharp edges, what looks like a wall radiator adjacent to those same interior stairs has sharp edges, in the photo with the 4 children sitting in the window there is a box (fire hose? fire extinguisher) that protrudes from the wall with sharp edges that a small child can bump their head into, the same room has yet another radiator with, yes, sharp edges, there are metal lockers in the photo with two men entering the building – those metal lockers sit on what appears to be metal legs that protrude out from underneath the lockers with sharp metal edges…

How can you say there are “few sharp edges” when I just pointed out numerous examples in only a few of the photos. This design for a child day care is still poor in my opinion. Little children are prone to falling, to tripping, to finding the sharp edges when an adult does not.

By: Anik1

Anik1 — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 10:20:02 +0000

Reading: "Day care centre de kleine" (http://twitthis.com/tp7m8j)

By: tom/tokuyama

tom/tokuyama — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 16:10:44 +0000

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By: 丁小叮

丁小叮 — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 06:32:17 +0000

Day care centre de kleine Kikker / Drost + van Veen architecten http://j.mp/KHaw9

By: Peter

Peter — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 22:52:06 +0000

This project is some years old now, 4 or 5… I visited it 3 or 4 years ago, while traveling around the Netherlands, and its a wonderful building, its response is precisely driven by its context… its form is no accident or stylistic shape making over contextual response… you approach through agricultural buildings towards the gable end, responding the relationship of the surrounding buildings, and as you travel through the building, the view opens to that wonderful panoramic “snorkel” over the flat dutch landscape. There are very few “sharp edges” int he building… its like the built environment in which children grown up, like their homes… children should not be warped in cotton wool… and infact, from meeting and talking with the children (and parents), the building is really loved by its users… a very successful bit of architecture and building… BRAVO!

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By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:31:27 +0000

Ralph,
I have noticed from a few recent comments on projects at this site that there appears to be a subtle backlash or rejection of the ‘superdutch-minimalism’. I was one who didn’t like it at first, but now I do. I will agree it has become expected and standard.

Some of the big-building US firms (NBBJ, HOK, and KPF) have done the same thing with their highly-articulated Meier-esque architecture. (I like it, and its good design, but I want to keep the criticism objective). It seems once a fresh aesthetic has legions of competent followers – it no longer seems as fresh.

Its like a cult college rock band, which gains broader fame, and then loses the interest of its original fans.

By: Ralph Kent

Ralph Kent — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:10:19 +0000

Its funny, that so much of the stuff that got people so excited about the “superdutch” movement in the 1990s continues to be trotted out and looks so generic and dull now.