Case Studies

  

 Mueller Park Universal Playspace by Ecoscape (Australia) Pty Ltd
2012 AILA National Landscape Architecture Award: Design

 Client: City of Subiaco
Partners: Water Features By Design

Mueller Park represents a promising progression in the development of all-abilities playgrounds. Rather than the primitive response of including one or two pieces of segregated and disability-specific equipment, modern playgrounds allow children of all abilities to play together.

This project goes a step further with the use of high-quality play equipment, carefully designed to suit the site and respect its context. Natural and reclaimed materials feature in a well resolved combination of off-the-shelf and custom-designed elements. The result is an intriguing and engaging playground which reflects an Australian commitment to social inclusion.

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Eco Architecture: Denmark’s greenest childcare center will protect natural resources

Eco Factor: Sustainable architecture designed to be powered by renewable energy.

Children in Hørsholm, north of Copenhagen, will soon have the greenest childcare center in Denmark. The center, which is due to be completed by November 2010, will be energy-efficient and generate more energy that what it actually consumes using renewable sources of energy.

Commissioned by Hørsholm Council in cooperation with VKR Holding and designed by Christensen & Co. Architects, the center will be home to state-of-the-art energy saving and generating technologies that promise to protect natural resources. 

The 4300-square-meter facility will feature low rise cedar-clad houses around its perimeters and an angular roof that rises and falls like a series of waves. This unique construction will allow generous amounts of natural light and ventilation to enter the perimeter to reduce the building’s overall energy demands. 

The concrete to be used for the floors and walls of the structure will optimize the performance of the building by serving as heat mass to store solar heat during the day to heat the interiors after dark. Moreover, the building will also include generous amounts of insulation to ensure that the complex consumes less energy than the maximum set by the 2015 Danish building regulations.

The facades of the roof are equipped with 50-square-meters of solar collectors that provide heating and hot water and 250-square-meters of photovoltaic panels that produce about 8KWh per square meter, which is much more than the energy requirements of the building. The childcare center will sell excess renewable energy to the grid during eight months of the year and buy renewable energy during the four dark months.

Custody Children with Unique Design by Stein Halvorsen

A child care that allows it you can learn to design the right thing, I’ve visited the Gumnut day care but I’ve never witnessed anything like Solrosen daycare center. Your day care center is absolutely amazing. It amazes us using the spaces use and how they’ve created separate zone with specific content. Diversity in the daycare center interior design can be seen and you should have seen how happy the kid faces were throughout the day. The architect who designs this attractive daycare center design was Stein Halvorsen Civil Architect MAL from Norway. The idea of your day care center architectural design was from the marigold flower and it’s amazing because the center could be accessed from a multitude of locations. We simply love the clean and spacious feeling given only at that modern day care center design.