CS SPECIAL Spaces for Children

Educational spaces for children have certainly evolved through the years, yet today the search to understand the processes involved in learning and teaching – including the role of the physical environment – is progressing like never before. The resurgence in recent years that the design of quality spaces for both learning and play has experienced is tied with advances in technology and an increase in cross-disciplinary inputs in architecture. This special issue looks at sixteen recent examples at the forefront of new concepts in spaces for children, including works by Mario Cucinella, Feld72, PAL Design Group, KLab Architecture, Tezuka Architects, Omgeving + Carve, and more.

Spaces and Places for Education_Martha Thorne
Child's Play_Alison Killing
Five Fields Play Structure_Matter Design + FR|SCH Projects
Playroom in University of Innsbruck_Studio3 - Institute for Experimental Studies UIBK
Public Nursery in Glyfada_KLab Architecture
Nursery in Guastalla_Mario Cucinella Architects
NUBO_PAL Design Group
Kindergarten Niederolang_Feld72
ATM Nursery_Hibinosekkei + Youji no Shiro
Chuon Chuon Kim 2 Kindergarten_KIENTRUC O
Fukumasu Base_Yasutaka Yoshimura Architects
Asahi Kindergarten_Tezuka Architects
Wish School_Grupo Garoa Arquitetos Associados
Baby Gym Barranquilla_El Equipo Mazzanti
Exupéry International School_8 A.M.
María Montessori Mazatlán School_EPArquitectos + Estudio Macías Peredo
Children's Village_Aleph Zero + Rosenbaum
Play Landscape be-MINE_OMGEVING + Carve