Kids like to explore and imagine, and get their hands on anything they could get. So, when it comes to kindergarten designs, architects and designers are keenly aware of the importance of a fun learning environment. It’s not about just learning, but mostly the kids learn while they play, so colours and fun all should come into play in such a building.
Not only you, but we need inspiration too. To look at spaces that welcome interaction with the environment and encourage lots of fun and imagination. Besides playground, what else can you think of as a fun kindergarten?
Today, we want to share with you the Top 5 Super Fun Kindergarten Designs with bright colours and open spaces that strongly compel kids to explore.
- Kindergarten Wolfartsweier / Tomi Ungerer and Ayla Suzan Yöndel
- Animal Adventure Island / Fenhom·URO
- Tanzishi Kindergarten / NAN Architects
- OB Kindergarten and Nursery / HIBINOSEKKEI + Youji no Shiro
- MRN Kindergarten and Nursery / HIBINOSEKKEI + Youji no Shiro
1. Kindergarten Wolfartsweier, in Karlsruhe, Germany
The whimsical Kindergarten Wolfartsweier is built like a big white cat, isn’t it interesting?
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The kindergarten was constructed in 2011 and designed by Tomi Ungerer and Ayla Suzan Yöndel. You can see a door for a mouth below a whisker-lined nose, windows for eyes, and a classroom in its belly, it’s s solid cat building. The interesting part is that its tail is built as a slide where kids can play with it.
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With the animalistic design, the kindergarten is one of the remarkable fun kindergarten designs in our lists.
2. Animal Adventure Island / Fenhom·URO
The kindergarten is inspired because of the environmental problems. The designer brings up the issues of harmony between man and nature and animals, so here it comes the Animal Adventure Island.
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According to Arch Daily, Zhang Ying, an architect and interior designer who graduated from Harvard, believes that “the emotion of proper distance” is the core of parent-child communication through her life communication and experience at home and abroad in her creation. So he believes that the best relationship between parents and children is to keep each other company but leave each other’s spiritual space.
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The kindergarten consists of four different animals, lion, elephant, zebra, and parrot, respectively convey four different personality traits: communication, exploration, courage, and wisdom. The designer hopes to build a parent-child paradise with the way of thinking of “learning while playing, playing while learning“. It’s one of the super fun kindergarten designs for me!
3. Tanzishi Kindergarten / NAN Architects
Tanzishi kindergarten houses 18 classrooms, offices, an activity room, a kitchen, and a clinic, covering 5400 sqm (58125 sqft).
The design arranges the classrooms and supporting facilities as independent elements in flat grid order, interlacing the interior with the exterior, forming a spatial pattern of classrooms arranged around three courtyards. The courtyards are interpenetrated with each other and with the external site. The activity area of the classroom uses large floor-to-ceiling glass to ensure sufficient light and bring the vibrant courtyard landscape inside. The open outdoor corridor connects the courtyards and terraces, providing a rich outdoor play space.
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In response to the height difference of the site and to reduce the oppressiveness of the building volume to the street, the classroom units along the street drop down to form a step-like roof deck. The north side of the building is elevated to provide ample light and excellent views of the classrooms. The large floor-to-ceiling windows, connecting corridors, and inner courtyard give the entire building a transparent image that stands out in the gloomy weather of Chongqing and brings life to the community.
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The transparent volume adds layers and interest to the space, providing children with opportunities to hide and explore the space while fostering their creativity. When considering kindergarten designs, think about the space that children can explore.
4. OB Kindergarten and Nursery / HIBINOSEKKEI + Youji no Shiro
The designers have designed a variety of operations with the body in the kindergarten such as providing many small steps, many small caves that attract children’s attention, and the wall-painting blackboard in order to encourage a diverse movement of children.
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The designers also provide elongated stairs of the extent to which children can pass. I am so amazed at the loft that go up with ropes and climbing bars and there is a deck terrace open towards the sea, the view is super awesome! The design helps improve children’s physical strength, coordination and movement.
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According to Arch Daily, HIBINOSEKKEI + Youji no Shiro believe that art activities are an important element to grow sensibility. By providing a glazed special room that is easy to see and understand than children can concentrate even more interested.
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Furthermore, there are external and integral dining terraces facing the dining atrium, which creates the atmosphere of a building that is open to the sea. By providing the children’s counter, makes opportunities of food education through serving, and also be easy to use for neighbourhood and parents have given the strong links.
5. MRN Kindergarten and Nursery / HIBINOSEKKEI + Youji no Shiro
Last but not least in our super fun kindergarten designs, the MRN Kindergarten designed by HIBINOSEKKEI + Youji no Shiro. The Kindergarten cum Nursery is situated amidst the rural fields on the foothills of Mt. Kirishima in Miyakonojo, Miyazaki, Japan. The kindergarten has firmly rooted in the minds of locals, as the architects mentioned that it often happened that the very same children who once studied here came back with their own children even after so many years.
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In the past 30 years, the building has done several renovations and expanded bigger. Now, the design of the new building was formulated properly defining the areas meant for different purposes of learning, playing, eating, exercising etc.
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According to the architects, four big old trees were retained, with people looking up to them for watching over the upcoming generation. These trees are visible from all the nursery rooms. By designing the building, with them at the center, a visual connection in between the rooms, the trees and the children was established. The emergency staircase from the second floor was extended all the way underneath the tree branches, making it possible for children to closely feel them and hence create a playful environment under. Lots of Cedars and Hinoki Cypress trees from Miyazaki were planted for connecting kindergarten site with the local community and the nature.
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