Description
Kindergarten Pusteblume is a small preschool for children with developmental or
physical learning difficulties. It has built-in furniture that takes on a more
domestic aesthetic suited to the size and human scale of the building. A timber
‘storage wall’ in each of the six classrooms incorporates cupboards and a sink
area. The cupboard doors are painted in blue and white, forming a subtle
checkerboard pattern. Colour is important in the school, and the wall contrasts
with deeper coloured flooring and bright interior walls in the central atrium
space. More built-in storage is provided in the therapy rooms.
Drawings
Site plan, scale 1:1000
Ground floor, scale 1:200
Roof view, scale 1:200
Section, scale 1:100
Section, scale 1:100
Photos
Exterior view
Interior view from classroom
Originally published in: Prue Chiles (ed.), Leo Care, Howard Evans, Anna Holder, Claire Kemp, Building Schools: Key Issues for Contemporary Design, Birkhäuser, 2015.