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Rethinking the Flat Datum: Designing Space with Incline and Intent

Jonathan Yeung — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Historically, architecture and the built environment have insisted on creating flat, hard surfaces. In earlier eras, walking without paved ground meant mud-caked shoes, uneven footing, tripping hazards, standing water after rain, and high maintenance. Hence, as we shaped cities, we prioritized a smooth, continuous, solid horizontal datum. The benefits are real: easier walking, simpler cleaning, and straightforward programming—furniture, equipment, and partitions all prefer a level base. This universal preference for building on flat ground remains the norm and, for many practical reasons, will likely continue to be.

Buildner Announces Kinderspace 2025 Winners and Next Call for Entries

Rene Submissions — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 06:45:00 +0000

Buildner has announced the results of its Kinderspace Edition #2 Competition and launched the third annual Kinderspace Edition #3 with an upcoming registration deadline of 26 November 2025. Following its inaugural launch, this annual international competition once again invited architects, designers, and educators to explore new possibilities for early childhood learning environments.

Kindergarten Architecture: Imaginative Spaces Shaping Childhood and Creativity

Diogo Borges Ferreira — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 07:30:00 +0000

Kindergarten architecture has long stood apart as a realm where design and imagination converge. Unlike most building typologies, these spaces are conceived not only to shelter and function but to shape the earliest experiences of curiosity, play, and social interaction. Throughout history, the design of kindergartens has evolved alongside pedagogical shifts, moving from modest, utilitarian beginnings to highly intentional environments that stimulate both learning and wonder. In this context, architecture becomes more than a backdrop — it becomes a silent educator, capable of nurturing emotional, cognitive, and physical development.

IZY Kindergarten and Nursery / HIBINOSEKKEI + Youji no Shiro

Hana Abdel — Thu, 02 Dec 2021 18:00:00 +0000

A newly built kindergarten and nursery in Aichi, Japan, with the concept “Learn the Local and Stimulate 5 Senses by See, Touch and Feel”. This town used to flourish as a carpenter's town, called “Yokomatsu Daiku” and there are many shrines and temples built by them. Through contributing to the succession of the town's history and culture, This kindergarten and nursery were built for children to see, touch, feel materials and grow 5 senses while learning their local history and culture.

Design Communities for Children: 10 Exemplary Kindergartens in China

Scarlett Miao — Sun, 11 Jul 2021 07:30:00 +0000

Bruce Jilk in his essay ‘Place Making and Change in learning environments” showcases a radical view of contemporary education which, he argues, is outdated and does not meet the needs of the modern world. Instead of providing for a world of individuals operating within a wider urban environment, schools have become internalized ghettos of childhood, cutting off from communities they are supposed to serve, centrally administered in a “one size fits all” ethos. Designers and architects around the world have always been seeking a more flexible architectural model which will allow much more creativity within the learning process and the environments which serve it.

A Library in South Korea and a School in Mozambique :10 Unbuilt Projects Submitted to Archdaily

Andreea Cutieru — Mon, 19 Apr 2021 04:00:00 +0000

This week’s curated selection of the Best Unbuilt Architecture focuses on projects related to learning, research and culture submitted by the ArchDaily Community. From kindergartens to libraries and universities, the article explores how different spaces of knowledge around the world are designed to inspire their users.

Nanxun Town Center Kindergarten / UAD

舒岳康 - SHU Yuekang — Mon, 01 Jul 2019 20:00:00 +0000

Introducer
Huzhou Nanxun Kindergarten is located in the core area of Nanxun City New Area. It faces Nanlin Road in the West and Central Street in the south. To the east, it is planned river course and urban green belt in the north, Nanxun Museum project in the north, citizen square in the northeast, and ecological children park in the east. With William Hezlitt's design concept of "freedom to think, feel and do whatever you are interested in, complete freedom", the designer has built a kindergarten with 8 classes of large, medium and small classes, which can accommodate about 720 children.

YM Nursery / HIBINOSEKKEI + Youji no Shiro

Martita Vial della Maggiora — Thu, 14 Feb 2019 20:00:00 +0000

“Feel nature, grow sensitivity”

MAD Architects Begin Construction on Floating Kindergarten above Historic Beijing Courtyard

Niall Patrick Walsh — Tue, 13 Nov 2018 09:00:00 +0000

Construction has begun on MAD Architect’s “Courtyard Kindergarten” in Beijing. Located on the site of a traditional siheyuan courtyard dating from 1725, MAD’s proposal sees a new building inserted to protect the surroundings, and reinvigorate the existing buildings into use.

Hangzhou Haishu School of Future Sci-Tech City / LYCS Architecture

舒岳康 - SHU Yuekang — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Traditional school planning in modern Chinese cities usually provides students and children with an adult-scale campus environment at an excessively early stage. Such environment gives no help to them in coping with high educational and social pressure. Facing these phenomenon, it is the architects’ responsibility to subversively break these conventions in school planning and offer children with space of their own scale and age in which they will enjoy living and studying.

Between Square and Circle: Xinnan Kindergarten / Jin Niu

Winnie Wu — Thu, 20 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000

When I first stepped out into the site of Xinnan Kindergarten, I was a bit down and disappointed. Looking around, in this village nearby the Xiamen Island, I saw nothing but the barren fields and messy country houses. It has neither the rich and interesting information nor the fascinating surroundings.

The Moravia Kindergarten / Alejandro Restrepo Montoya + Javier Castañeda Acero

Igor Fracalossi — Fri, 29 Nov 2013 01:00:00 +0000

1. The Urban and Social Characteristics
Between Social Absences and Informal Constructions
Barrio Moravia is located in toe northeastern sector of the city of Medellín and is connected to the downtown area through the Paseo Urbano Carabobo.Near Moravia new urban spaces and cultural activities are beginning to generate a different perception of the sector. Moravia has been the place of unplanned settlements and diverse urban growths. The December 23, 2004, census indicated that there are 4,300 properties located in the zone of physical and non – recoverable environmental risk, areas of recessed brooks occupied by informal settlements and an opportunity for the development of mobility projects, the generation of public space and diverse facilities. Unplanned housing has, historically, been build in Barrio Moravia, the majority of them located on a landfill. Moravia is an urban system with a closed configuration, which favors the “inward development” of the community life of its inhabitants, with a labyrinthine urban grid and reduced physical relationships with the city.

Green Hills Kinder / Broissin Architects

Javiera González — Tue, 27 Aug 2013 01:00:00 +0000

The Green Hills school campus to the north of the metropolitan area of Mexico City is a campus planned in three stages. The description below corresponds to the first stage of the kindergarten.

AD Round Up: Kindergardens Part V

Sebastian Jordana — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 19:00:27 +0000

Five great kindergardens in Europe for our fifth selection of previously featured projects. Check them all after the break.

AD Round Up: Kindergartens Part III

Sebastian Jordana — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 19:00:13 +0000

It’s the place where your little kid will spent most of their time outside your house. Shouldn’t it be nice? Here’s our third selection of previously featured kindergartens. Check them all after the break!

AD Round Up: Kindergardens Part II

Sebastian Jordana — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:30:46 +0000

Probably, the first place outside our homes where we spend a large time of the day. So to finish this week’s Round Up, we bring you our second part of previously featured Kindergardens. See the first part here.

AD Round Up: Kindergardens Part I

Sebastian Jordana — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:30:40 +0000

Our first step in educational backgrounds. It’s where we cry during our first day and probably where we make our very first best friend. Maybe, one of the most important places in our eary years. So to start this week of Round Up, we bring you our previoulsy featured Kindergardens.