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A-Z's for designing superior day care facilities

Virtually unknown 30 years ago, daycare has become a growth industry. Child Care Design Guide helps architects and designers plan, design, and renovate functional, developmentally rich, pleasing centers. Author AnitaRui Olds brings to this work over 25 years of design experience with children's facilities. She gives you step-by-step explanations of interior and exterior layout and design principles fleshed out in clarifying casestudies. You learn about licensing and code requirements, operational standards and strategies, and get helpful checklists, charts and graphs for optimum facility design within time, space, and budgetary constraints.This highly visual work features over 300 floor plans for infant and toddler, preschool, and afterschool spaces, plus areas for outdoor play and more.

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CONTENTS

FOREWORD = XI

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS = XIII

INTRODUCTION = XV

PART ONE THE CHILD'S ENVIRONMENT = 1

 CHAPTER ONE Raising America's Children = 3

  The Dilemma of Child Care = 3

  The Child Care Center : A Building Type In Search of a Model = 7

  What Children Need : The Foundation of Center Design = 8

  From Theory to Reality = 12

 CHAPTER TWO The Spirit of Place = 15

  Prelude to Design : Recalling Our Own Spirited Places = 16

  Creating the Spirit of Home : Building Centers on a Residential Model = 19

  Designing Spirited Places : The True Purpose of Architecture = 21

  Developing a Child's Perspective : Broad-based Perception = 21

  Qualities of Spirited Places = 22

  Spirited Design = 26

PART TWO THE DESIGN PROCESS = 33

 CHAPTER THREE The Design Team and Process = 35

  Teamwork : The Essence of a Successful Design = 35

  The Mission Statement : The Team's First Task = 38

  The Design Team : Members and Their Roles = 38

  Choosing Design Personnel = 44

  The Design Process : Eight Stages = 47

  Evaluation : An Ongoing Process = 52

  Enhancing The Skills of The Design Team = 52

 CHAPTER FOUR Starting Out : Program and Site Considerations = 57

  The Premise Underlying Center Design : Organizing Children By Age = 57

  Center Size = 63

  Assessing Building Size = 65

  Assessing Site Size = 68

  Assessing Group Room Sizes = 69

  Key Secondary Space Requirements : Plumbing and Storage = 72

  Preliminary Site Considerations = 76

  New Construction versus Renovation = 80

  From the Child's Perspective = 81

 CHAPTER FIVE Elements of Building and Site Design = 83

  The Child Care Setting's Image = 83

  Approach and Entry = 91

  Interior Circulation = 98

  Relationship Between Indoors and Outdoors = 101

  Centers Located within a Larger Building = 106

  Modules or a Campus Plan? = 107

  The Final Assessment = 108

 CHAPTER SIX Laying Out The Center = 109

  The Schematic Design Process = 109

  Spatial Organization = 110

  Key Layout Consideration = 113

  Renovation Projects = 123

  The Necessity for Trade-Offs = 125

  Testing the Layout = 125

  Eight Center Layouts = 125

  Ascribing Qualities to Spaces = 126

 CHAPTER SEVEN Zoning a Group Room = 137

  Group Room Layout : A Collaborative Process = 137

  Identifying Functional Requirements = 137

  Fixed Features = 139

  Regions and Zones = 141

  Activities that Occur in the Four Zones = 142

  Creating Wet and Dry Regions = 143

  The Wet Region : A Place of Exposed Spaces = 145

  The Dry Region : A Place of Protected Spaces = 150

  Marking the Boundary Between Wet and Dry = 152

  Twelve Steps to Room Zoning and Layout = 153

  Case Studies = 153

  Conclusion = 165

PART THREE INGREDIENTS OF GOOD DESIGN = 167

 CHAPTER EIGHT Healthy Buildings = 169

  Building Ecology and Sustainable Design = 169

  Water and Plumbing = 172

  Heating and Cooling = 172

  Ventilation and Air Quality = 174

  Electromagnetic Fields = 177

 CHAPTER NINE Sound = 179

  Sound and Sacred Architecture = 179

  Sound Organizes Matter = 179

  The Effects of Noise = 180

  Sound in the Child Cave Environment = 180

 CHAPTER TEN Light and Lighting = 187

  Natural Light = 187

  Artificial Light = 189

 CHAPTER ELEVEN Windows, Doors, and Security = 197

  Windows : Plentiful and Operable = 197

  Doors : Graceful and Glazed = 206

  Security and Locks = 210

  Hardware-Knobs and Levers = 211

 CHAPTER TWELVE Color = 213

  The Power of Color = 213

  Understanding Color = 214

  General Considerations in Color Selection = 218

  Choosing Exterior Colors = 223

  C1'Loosing Interior Colors = 224

  Mixing Full-Spectrum Colors = 226

  Unifying the Building's Colors = 228

 CHAPTER THIRTEEN Interior Finishes = 231

  Texture = 232

  Floors = 233

  Ceilings = 237

  Walls = 240

  Signs and Art = 246

 CHAPTER FOURTEEN Furnishings = 251

  Getting Started = 251

  Creating an Interiors "Bible" = 252

  The Art of Placing Furnishings = 253

  Furniture = 254

  Cabinetry = 258

  Fabrics = 260

  Accessories = 262

  Finishing Touches = 262

PART FOUR FUNCTIONAL SPACES = 265

 CHAPTER FIFTEEN Designing Group-Room Activity Areas = 267

  What Is an Activity Area? = 267

  Play ／ Educational Experience Types = 267

  Activity-Area Attributes = 268

  Modifications for Children with Disabilities = 290

  Changing and Maintaining a Room's Layout = 295

  Summary = 296

 CHAPTER SIXTEEN Spaces For Infants and Toddlers = 299

  Program Considerations = 299

  Design Considerations = 303

  Program-Specific Decisions for Infants ／ Toddlers = 307

  Typical Infant ／ Toddler Activity Areas = 321

  Illustrative Floor Plans = 329

 CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Spaces For Preschoolers and Kindergarteners = 341

  Program Considerations = 341

  Design Considerations = 342

  Program-Specific Decisions = 342

  Typical Preschool and Kindergarten Activity Areas = 349

  Illustrative Floor Plans = 369

 CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Spaces For School-Age Children = 377

  Types of Programs = 377

  Program-Specific Decisions = 378

  Typical School-Age Activities = 382

  Storage = 391

  Illustrative Floor Plan = 393

 CHAPTER NINETEEN Spaces For Staff and Parents : Building Community = 395

  Staff = 395

  Parents = 406

  Building Family-Staff Community = 409

 CHAPTER TWENTY Outdoor Play Spaces = 411

  The Importance of Nature = 411

  Site Planning Considerations = 412

  Play Ya1d Design and Zoning Considerations = 416

  A Word About Accidents : Challenge versus Hazard = 418

  Equipment Design = 420

  Adventure and Creative Play = 426

  Quiet Play and Private Places = 429

 CHAPTER TWENTY ONE Child Care Centers of The Future = 431

  A Building Type in Search of a Model = 431

  The Residential Core Model = 431

  The Husky Child Development Center-The Copper House = 433

  New Generation Learning Centre = 442

  Getting From Here to There = 448

  A Vision for the Future = 451

APPENDIX Ⅰ Questions to Ask Prospective Architects = 453

APPENDIX Ⅱ Comparison : Construction Manager vs. General Contractor = 455

APPENDIX Ⅲ A Summary of Low-Toxic Building Materials = 457

APPENDIX Ⅳ Carla Mathis's Living Colors = 461

CREDITS = 465

BIBLIOGRAPHY = 469

INDEX = 471

ABOUT THE AUTHOR = 484