Designing Children Daycare

Designing Children Daycare
Let's talk about children and interior design. Children, especially in early age need a place that provide safety, caring, love and education. School for early ages or children daycare should be designed according those requirements. Children daycare is a place full of tiny creatures gathered around learning how to play,socialize, cry, pee and sleep. okay, that's my humble opinion. I am not talking or writing about school design, I will post on next topic but now focus on how to design children daycare. Daycare is for children age 6 months to 5 years old. I think In some countries this age categorizing is a bit different. Because in that age, children are not able to take care of themselves, yet. They still need adult chaperones who provide guidance, teaching and caring.

 

In term of designing children daycare, safety is important. the design form of floors, walls, ceilings must be considered carefully as well as the finishing materials. No sharp edges for furniture, non slip floor, non toxic materials and non allergenic furnishings. Rounded form for furniture such as tables, chair, cushions can create playful and friendly image. And using decorative colors for finishing can stimulate kiddies brains.

Designing children daycare is to provide caring and loving environment. soft cushions,pillows and blankets, stuffed toys. They could evolve the sense of loving, caring and tenderness. Non flammable, Anti bacterial, Non toxic and non allergenic materials are highly recommended.
Pay more attention in designing air circulation and air condition arrangement to create healthy environment.

Daycare is a place for education as well, because by staying at daycare children have the same working hour as their parents. Therefore daycare must be designed to provide children's need such as meal, nap time, play time and study (classroom, small group activities and library). Baby cribs, small beds, dining tables, playground area and small classroom are standard facilities to support educative activities at daycare

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Christmas Window Display Design

CHRISTMAS WINDOW DISPLAY DESIGN
I am still interested in window display design. It's Christmas month, the festive will go for one month, it's time to change the window display design theme to welcome the spirit of shopping and entertaining. I have observed there are many Christmas item that usually added to Christmas window display design theme e.g Santa clause, reindeer, snow, pine tree, toys factory, the bells, Jesus cave. They are classic Christmas decor. We don't have to use all those classic decor to create unique Christmas window display design. We can use theme as peter pan celebrating Christmas, There are few things noted:

Every Christmas window display design must have central feature that draws attention. And everything else comes around is accompaniment which have to be harmonized or blended well with the focal point. Play with spotlights, track lights, floor lights to create impressive highlight on focal
point. If we want to make it simple design, just keep focus to create less is more look. we can put One central feature harmonized with lighting and color. Or play it with full ornate Christmas window design. Apply one color theme with full Christmas ornaments, colorful Christmas items put together, all of them mixed well with good lighting arrangement. Designing Christmas window display is not just merchandise but includes balance composition of lighting, color and space.

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Unique Window Display Design

Window display design is the first impression people to customer to see what you are selling on your store.
A good window display design is to invite, seduce, entertain people who walk pass the store. The most important is to attract more customer to enter the store.
there are many ways to create good window display design:

work on a theme or focus on certain products, the latest trends or discounted items. Keep it simple and focus, don't put too many merchandise on window display it will make them cluttered.
Good lighting also play a role in window display design. Use the lighting to create a mood and spotlight individual product.Use track lighting and or spot light to create entertaining ambiance. this type of design works on store at the mall. if your store location is on the street, you may need to have big graphic display, bold colors and lighting design.





Here is a few samples of window display design which I think is unique, entertaining and have selling point.
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Best Building of 2008, Business Week Version

BusinessWeek/Architectural Record annual design award winners

Here are few of best building designs according to Business Week. Some of them are good in design and function.
The winners of this year's BusinessWeek/Architectural Record awards demonstrate a pragmatism that seems appropriate in these credit-crunched times. That's not to say the designs are boring. The new headquarters for workspace design firm Haworth (above, kitted out with all its own products for potential clients to see in action) are striking, while the huge steel lattices running from top to bottom of the south sides of the towers of Poly Real Estate's Poly International Plaza in Guangzhou, China act both as decoration and as energy-saving shade. All six winning projects are emblematic of the awards' semi-official slogan, "Good Design is Good Business."


One Haworth Center: From Dull to Dramatic
Location: Holland, Mich.
Client: Haworth
Architect: Perkins + Will
Office designer Haworth replaced its dull, traditional building with a structure that has a dramatic, swooping glass-walled atrium running along one side the building.

Edmunds.com: Focus on Collaboration
Location: Santa Monica, Calif.
Client: Edmunds.com
Architect: STUDIOS Architecture
The 90,000-sq.-ft. head office for automotive research outfit Edmunds.com was designed to encourage collaboration.
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Tokyo Swatch by Shigeru Ban

Tokyo Swatch by Shigeru Ban
by Terri Peters

The new Swatch flagship store in Tokyo's Ginza district immediately stands out from the surrounding high-end fashion boutiques on this densely packed street. There is no doorway, no visible sign, and no glass storefront. Instead, a towering four-story void in the streetscape seems to signify a civic-scale entry.

The building's enormous retractable glass "shutters" create this dramatic effect when open. Then when the shutters are down — on rainy days and when the shop is closed — the building is disguised as a normal, curtain-wall office building.

This unusual store, named the Nicolas G. Hayek Center, is the work of U.S.-trained Japanese architect Shigeru Ban. Even at first glance, the building reveals itself as more than just a fancy facade: it is real architecture, a project about volume, spatial complexity, and experimentation.

Garden of Luxury

As visitors step off the busy sidewalk into the lobby of the 14-story Swatch building, no merchandise presents, and no salespeople patrol the door. A subtle change in floor material marks the low-key threshold between the sidewalk and the interior showroom. The massive lobby is dotted with glazed hydraulic elevators, planted trees, and a 13-story-tall hanging garden wall.

It's hard to believe that among the high-rent offices, posh boutiques, and exclusive restaurants of Ginza, in a forest of buildings mostly ten stories high and taller, Ban was able to design a little bit of semi-public space. The airy interior spaces, unconventional interior-exterior treatment, simple materials, and fragrant green lobby create an oasis of unusual calm.

source: Architecture Week

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Sustainable Building Design

In this world where the term of global warming is spreading, the sustainable architecture design is definitely required. It becomes the sacred words in the world of architecture. Sustainable building design refers to architectural design with zero emission, energy-saving building, refined building, any green architecture design that environmentally friendly and contributes to the protection of the organisms diversity and nature recovery.

In past century, architectural design and build required environmental sacrifice. In this century, the architectural design using natural energy, blend with nature and can lessen the environment burden can be sustainable to time is required.

Green architecture, Urban regeneration, bio climatic design, environmental architecture, are new important concepts in this century and applied by architects around the world, the sustainable building design concept starts being used from the vernacular houses to large scale urban development. And this emerging concept is to develop a form of understanding construction in close relation to nature both interior and exterior and the usage of alternative energy sources as well as to improve the quality of life, the concept of sustainable building design finally challenges the professionals to research the latest and imanigative innovation for architecture and design.

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Architectural Drapery

Architectural Drapery, The Cascade Coil Drapery
Architectural Drapery mesh interweaves weatherproof copper and stainless steel wire. Los Angeles–based designers ARYA Group used the mesh for the Village School gymnasium facade in Pacific Palisades, California.

Then carried it indoors for window treatments, light fixtures, and the curtain on a stage at one end of the gym. It's also available in a natural aluminum finish, nickel plated, or colorfully painted.
This is an architecture and interior design idea you can apply to your home design, drapery combined with wired copper ball in colorful paint. Sure looks unique and playful.

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Office Lounge Interior

We designed this office lounge interior for banking office dedicated for special customers. Actually it is a sample of old fashioned office lounge interior design for old fashioned bank office. All used colors (grey and brown) are matched with corporate colors. With dominantly grey colors would make this office interior looks dull. The design is still in form of simple and minimalist interior design only the line textures applied on walls.

There is no specific lightings nor ceiling design that could make this office lounge interior look more appealing and also the furniture design is not quite representative for modern office lounge interior. We think this office design is done around 4 years ago :)

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Small Office

This building design is a commercial office space, a small office used for supporting branch of bank. It is two storeys building located on street corner, which is very strategic space for commercial office, shop, etc. It's perfect for small office design that we develop for this branch. Not much changing we do for this building. The new design is only applied on facade and interior. The facade design is simple, using line pattern and full glass wall for entrance. For the interior, there are few changes just to accomodate manpower working in this small office building. Color dominantly used are white, silver and navy blue. The main point is to create clean minimalist look. Colors used are corporate colors

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Receptionist Interior

This interior design sketch is the receptionist counter in karaoke room. The concept is modern style. It is designed using frosted glass, mirror, cement textured and vinyl wall covering for the wall combined with wooden counter table and display case. For ceiling, play with circular form in gypsum board, continuous lightings and spot lights for certain part of the ceilings. All colors are natural colors, gray, brown and beige.

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Bar Counter Interior for Billiard Cafe

Bar corner, special designed for billiard café. The counter table is made of wood and metal material, as for wall, the textured wall combined with vinyl wall covering to create warm ambiance.

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Bar Counter Interior

This bar counter is special designed for office lounge. It was created sharp and clean in simple forms to represent its corporate image.
The only eye catcher is the bright red entrance gate. The ceiling is designed in cloud forms in gypsum board.

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The Hallway, interior design

These sketches show the interior design of corridor café. Each corridor has a different design especially on the wall and ceiling treatment. The one has a wall shelf in oriental style and textured paint. The other has frosted glass combine with wooden partition and painted wall. For the ceiling they have different design form and lighting style.

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The Mall

The contemporary architecture was applied in this mall building design. Playing with basic forms such as square and line, lots of lines and glass applied here actually. With appropriate design lighting will make the design look nice and elegant. Makes the impression of high-class building. It’ s a nice drawing presentation as well.

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New Dormitory Building for Students

This is a new building design for the development of Islamic educational institution.
The building design adopted some ornamental Islamic design as well as the local culture.

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Special Design Toilet

These are special design toilets in hospitality area as cafes or restaurants. The interior of the toilet are specially designed for ladies toilet. Each floor has different interior design in toilet area, since there are 3 floors occupied by this lounge cafe. The special design toilet comes out by using bright colors, mosaic ceramic tile, nice lighting and using colorful or transparent panel. it creates the image of modern, cheerful and feminine looks.

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Suite Room Interior

The view of interior hotel, the suite room. It’s an old project for amusement park design.

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Interior of Karaoke

Here are few sketches of interior design of karaoke singing hall. They are small singing rooms for 2-4 persons in contemporary style design.

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