Design Share丨How Should Kindergarten Classrooms be Designed?

Kindergarten is an important venue for kids to develop their interests, and the design of interior classrooms is often to encourage children to cooperate and learn from each other. In order to provide children with a better growth space, kindergarten classrooms should avoid being too serious and rigid in design, and highlight the openness and creativity of the space.

In Slovenia, Martno Kindergarten uses a completely open floor plan, combining service space such as corridors and stairs with learning and play space to create a quality activity space for children.

The interior walls of the kindergarten all adopt tiles as decoration, which is equal to increasing the unlimited game space by about 700 square meters. Furthermore, the activity rooms are through the mobile sliding door to make a separation, which is not only beneficial to the unfolding of children’s activities but also conducive to meeting the daily needs of children’s education.

In order to better make use of the interior space, the designers have arranged different amusement equipment and different learning environments in each classroom. Some classrooms are more science-oriented, some classrooms are equipped with music and art equipment, and some classrooms include sports equipment.

In the interior space, the multi-functional rainbow bridge is the central area of the design. On the one hand, this area can promote the child's cognition of color and number, on the other hand, the other side of the wall is a blackboard, which can be used as a canvas for the children's art creation.

The red slide that runs up and down the interior attracts children to play and exercise, and the children prefer to go down the slide rather than climb the stairs: On average, the children play on the slide 10 to 20 times a day, and they can play the slide either alone or in groups of two to three at a time. The bottom of the stairs is a storage space, and small objects can be placed so that children can enjoy quiet time alone away from the noisy activity area.

The corners of the interior space are not wasted, and every corner has become a play corner for children to choose freely. Most of the furniture is installed the wheels and they can be based on different space needs to make a change effectively.

When the interior space of the kindergarten is fully utilized, children will have more opportunities to choose the activities. Besides, they can conduct an activity in different time periods according to their interests. Compared to the traditional preschool, children have more games and learning activities in the Martno kindergarten. At this Martno kindergarten, children have at least two to three hours a day for free activities or gatherings, which is beneficial to promote kids at different grades to communicate, make the young children and elder children have an understanding, and increase the social activities, so that they can get an improvement in the EQ and IQ.

The open design of the Martno kindergarten quickly won over the children.At the same time,children enjoy various activities in the kindergarten every day, and some children even do not want to go home after school.