MA Project Forest Preschool For early year children in Page Hall LY HA MAI QUYNH – 25036757 – MA DESIGN (INTERIOR)
Problems and Project aims 1 OVERVIEW PROJECT AIMS • UK children – more unfit, less • Meet the demand, improve the learning motivation of pupils in Page Hall to enjoy a playful healthy active, more sedentary and heavier than before – 4 in 5 do childhood • not connect to the nature Provide outdoor classrooms within Firth Park woodland for young children to play, discover, • Decline of play in experience, learn, share knowledge and improve preschoolers and free play life skills – outdoors rise in sensory • Design inside educational spaces that youngsters issues. can study and play in bad weather Children in Page Hall • Give teaching toddlers in agriculture, gardening • Overcrowding and poor quality and growing plants for the future in housing, health and well- • Offer a public place for the community to gather being and share experiences together • Regular absences and low attainment in education • Not enough playground to go 1,500 Roma Slovak people live in Fir Vale/ Page Hall - Roma infant mortality rates 2 to 6 times higher than those for the generation - Number of White Eastern European pupils has increased by over 240% in the last 8 years
Principal concept and Key research 2 PRINCIPAL CONCEPT KEY RESEARCH • Early year foundation stage Nature + Learning + Design curriculum and development matters • Reserving with plenty of wildlife, local • Green kindergarten and pre-schools nature should be considered as com-mon architecture and playground design home, school and playground for children • Tree-house design to explore, play, learn and grow • Spatial needs and spaces for young • Learning outside to benefit the diverse children: colours, shapes, sound learning environment in natural world • Outdoor learning and playing combines indoor learning activities and activities plays for a comprehensive development • Gardening for children to grow fruits • Design green outside and inside learning and vegetable for organic foods environments with using native available • Public composting toilets resources and waste materials for • Design to reuse waste materials construction and interior design
Design concept: Outdoor classrooms 3 LYNWOOD GARDEN KINDERGARTEN FOREST SCHOOLS • Outdoor learning service for Set up in 2014, only schools providing long-term fully outdoor nursery programmes within a natural space , in Sheffield where led by a qualified practitioner children are taught in • Focus on developing personal, open air, play freely social and emotional life skills in outdoor settings, through learner led, nature-based learn about nature learning and the world around
Design concept: Pre-school up on the tree 4 Biomimetic Bamboo Treehou-se, Colombia - Jaime Pena Suspended Wooden Cocoon at Hooke Park in Dorset, England by AA Design Blue Forest's Fibonacci Tree House • Set up above the ground, treehouses capture childhood memory and nostalgia; stimulating people’s senses and imaginations ; heightening a sense of awareness of being in the trees, and acting as a link between the built and Treehouse restaurant in New Zealand natural environment. by Pacific Environment Architects • Building preschool up on the trees for classrooms and plays indoor in severe weather; to accommodate belongings, facilities, storage, restrooms and a multi- purposed room for sleeping, reading and exhibition area ; Tumbling Bay Playground, London by to leave available opening spaces below for outdoor Erect Architecture playground • Wooden rope suspended bridges is designed to connect between shelters and make a public walkway and viewing • Organic forms are considered to stimulate young Kew Gardens Treetop Walkway, children’s creativity London
Design concept: Farming Kindergarten and Composting toilets 5 • PUBLIC TOILETS Waste of preschoolers, staff and pedestrians in • Toilet needs: by age 3, the park will be most children urinate transferred to composters around a dozen times in the basement is per day. periodically taken offsite GARDENING PRO- to be used as fertilizer for GRAM IN SCHOOL school gardens Growing own fruit and vegetable gardens enables children inter- action with nature, learn about farming and agriculture, pro- vide food and harvest activities
Design concept: Native material and waste material 6 NATIVE MATERIAL • Native available material makes buildings natural and friendly to the surroundings • Willow is adaptability, survive almost anywhere, improve poor OLD CANS - NEW LIFE soil and clean polluted sites. • On 15-minute walking route from SHU to Living willow is a wonderful home, I have been found average 15 empty material to work with, flexible and beverage cans a day. forgiving, can be woven easily into different shapes. Interior designs reuse • Structures built from willow are empty cans in environmentally friendly and cladding, decoration, sustainable - a green alternative to dividers for colours, plastic play equipment. sound with lighting
Design requirements and the new design concept 7 NEW DESIGN CONCEPT FOR A GREEN NURSERY NATURE LEARNING (Early years foundation, UK Government) DESIGN GARDENING PROGRAM
Firth Park and site analysis 8 ANALYSIS OF THE SITE Advantages with variety of outdoor activities: • Ancient woodland and trees (dominated by oak and sycamore and a number of beech and ash) • Small canal along the walkway provides micro habitats in water • Diversity of steep terrain • Close to Brushes Allotments, appropriate for school gardening program The area for building the forest pre- school is about 1,200 m2 Map of Page Hall area in Youth Firth Park visitor map in 2009 by Sheffield City Council and analysis of the site Center by Quynh Ly Page Hall location by Google map
Layout and observation of existing trees 9 Grid tree layout in Firth Park Site and woodland observation
Planning layout proposal 10 Planning for functional spaces in the main building Master planning layout of the forest preschool design Sketch of architectural form for the main building
CONCLUSION 11 “Sustainability” Education by To develop my final project, in the next stage I have planned to Sustainable school design • Make a model of a grid of existing • A new forest treehouse nursery in trees in planning to interpret the site Firth Park, for 20 young children • Design pre-school in detail, from the under 7 years, has been designed initial concept, architectural forms by the principal concept of the and interior spaces based on UK interaction of nature, learning and design standards for children design to renovate and connect • Figure out technologies to build with students directly with the willow envelope and testing with environment in which they live. empty aluminum cans. • This hope to encourage the • Consider to collaborate with First engagement of children with the Star Children Center, Firth Park project to change their passive Community, allotments and other learning style and free plays for a experts, educators, practitioners for better future. co-creating the future • Wooden structure from available resource, willow envelope, waste cans in interior cladding and decoration
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