Vancouver Interior Design Company
As a Vancouver interior design company, we believe in seeking out distinctive approaches to design — our team greatly takes into account how physical environments can transform the feelings and behaviours of people moving through the spaces we work with.
But how best to look at function, flow, and design for a space designed for children? Their needs and sensibilities are much different than those of adults.
This is the design challenge we were presented with, and one we gladly accepted: how to prepare a feasibility study for a large group daycare.
The client we’re working with is an experienced daycare facilitator looking to bring expansion and innovation to her existing business.
Vancouver Daycare Interior Design – The Design
The building she will have us reworking used to house a restaurant, and features the necessary amount of parking spaces, updated plumbing fixtures, and a good amount of windows, bringing light into the space.
However, it goes without saying that the needs of a restaurant are vastly different than a space that needs to accommodate 76 children, aged from 3-5 years old, as well as the adults caring for them!
As well, we must incorporate our client’s needs and goals for her facility.
She wants her space to integrate natural daylight, have improved indoor air quality, and make use of current progressive energy efficient technologies.
Other listed priorities include a careful budget that won’t compromise design quality, and a capacity to provide state of the art childcare at a reasonable cost to her customers.
Her biggest stated priority is that her facility serves her community by providing healthy, wholesome, and safe care for children.
With these goals in mind, the m+ team has to carefully consider how to go about transforming the current space. We must ask, how much adequate usable space is there? How will noise, colour palettes, lighting, and ventilation work together in this space?
The design end-goal is this: a highly functional and multi-purpose environment that will allow staff to easily focus on and care for multiple children, all the while facilitating positive communication between all present.
Vancouver Interior Design & Architects | M+ Design
With client goals and desired architecture and design outcome set, our next blog post will focus on how the m+ team melds desired aesthetic and function with practical and logistical considerations.
