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MA Project

LY HA MAI QUYNH – 25036757 – MA DESIGN (INTERIOR)

Forest Preschool

For early year children in Page Hall

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

Problems and Project aims

1 PROJECT AIMS

• Meet the demand, improve the learning motivation
• f pupils in Page Hall to enjoy a playful healthy

childhood

• Provide
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classrooms within Firth Park woodland for young children to play, discover, experience, learn, share knowledge and improve life skills

• Design inside educational spaces that youngsters

can study and play in bad weather

• Give teaching toddlers in agriculture, gardening

and growing plants for the future

• Offer a public place for the community to gather

and share experiences together

OVERVIEW

• UK children – more unfit, less

active, more sedentary and heavier than before – 4 in 5 do not connect to the nature

• Decline
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play in preschoolers and free play

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– rise in sensory issues. Children in Page Hall

• Overcrowding and poor quality

in housing, health and well- being

• Regular

absences and low attainment in education

• Not enough playground to go

Principal concept and Key research

2 KEY RESEARCH

• Early

year foundation stage curriculum and development matters

• Green kindergarten and pre-schools

architecture and playground design

• Tree-house design
• Spatial needs and spaces for young

children: colours, shapes, sound

• Outdoor

learning and playing activities

• Gardening for children to grow fruits

and vegetable for organic foods

• Public composting toilets
• Design to reuse waste materials

PRINCIPAL CONCEPT

Nature + Learning + Design

• Reserving with plenty of wildlife, local

nature should be considered as com-mon home, school and playground for children to explore, play, learn and grow

• Learning outside to benefit the diverse

learning environment in natural world combines indoor learning activities and plays for a comprehensive development

• Design green outside and inside learning

environments with using native available resources and waste materials for construction and interior design

FOREST SCHOOLS

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learning service for schools providing long-term programmes within a natural space, led by a qualified practitioner

• Focus
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developing personal, social and emotional life skills through learner led, nature-based learning

Design concept: Outdoor classrooms

3 LYNWOOD GARDEN KINDERGARTEN Set up in 2014, only fully outdoor nursery in Sheffield where children are taught in

• pen air, play freely

in

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settings, learn about nature and the world around

Design concept: Pre-school up on the tree

• 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 natural environment.

• 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; to leave available opening spaces below for outdoor 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

children’s creativity

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Suspended Wooden Cocoon at Hooke Park in Dorset, England by AA Design Biomimetic Bamboo Treehou-se, Colombia - Jaime Pena Treehouse restaurant in New Zealand by Pacific Environment Architects Blue Forest's Fibonacci Tree House Kew Gardens Treetop Walkway, London Tumbling Bay Playground, London by Erect Architecture

Design concept: Farming Kindergarten and Composting toilets

• Waste
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preschoolers, staff and pedestrians in the park will be transferred to composters in the basement is periodically taken offsite to be used as fertilizer for school gardens 5 GARDENING PRO- GRAM IN SCHOOL Growing own fruit and vegetable gardens enables children inter- action with nature, learn about farming and agriculture, pro- vide food and harvest activities PUBLIC TOILETS

• Toilet needs: by age 3,

most children urinate around a dozen times per day.

NATIVE MATERIAL

• Native available material makes

buildings natural and friendly to the surroundings

• Willow is adaptability, survive

almost anywhere, improve poor soil and clean polluted sites.

• Living willow is a wonderful

material to work with, flexible and forgiving, can be woven easily into different shapes.

• Structures built from willow are

environmentally friendly and sustainable - a green alternative to plastic play equipment. OLD CANS - NEW LIFE On 15-minute walking route from SHU to home, I have been found average 15 empty beverage cans a day.

Design concept: Native material and waste material

6 Interior designs reuse empty cans in cladding, decoration, dividers for colours, sound with lighting

Design requirements and the new design concept

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(Early years foundation, UK Government)

NATURE DESIGN LEARNING NEW DESIGN CONCEPT FOR A GREEN NURSERY GARDENING PROGRAM

ANALYSIS OF THE SITE Advantages with variety

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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

Firth Park and site analysis

Map of Page Hall area in Youth Center by Quynh Ly

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Firth Park visitor map in 2009 by Sheffield City Council and analysis of the site Page Hall location by Google map

Layout and observation of existing trees

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Grid tree layout in Firth Park Site and woodland observation

Planning layout proposal

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Sketch of architectural form for the main building Planning for functional spaces in the main building Master planning layout of the forest preschool design

To develop my final project, in the next stage I have planned to

• Make a model of a grid of existing

trees in planning to interpret the site

• Design pre-school in detail, from the

initial concept, architectural forms and interior spaces based on UK design standards for children

• Figure out technologies to build with

willow envelope and testing with empty aluminum cans.

• Consider to collaborate with First

Star Children Center, Firth Park Community, allotments and

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experts, educators, practitioners for co-creating the future 11

CONCLUSION “Sustainability” Education by Sustainable school design

• A new

forest treehouse nursery in Firth Park, for 20 young children under 7 years, has been designed by the principal concept

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the interaction of nature, learning and design to renovate and connect students directly with the environment in which they live.

• This

hope to encourage the engagement of children with the project to change their passive learning style and free plays for a better future.

• Wooden

structure from available resource, willow envelope, waste cans in interior cladding and decoration