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Moore, Gary T. – Child Care Information Exchange, 1996
Examines the size of child-care-center spaces as a factor for designing developmentally appropriate facilities. Explores a range of architectural and design issues related to the size of spaces and ways of subdividing rooms to provide opportunities for small-group, quiet activities that are important to quality child care. (AA)
Descriptors: Building Design, Classroom Design, Day Care, Day Care Centers
Moore, Gary T. – Child Care Information Exchange, 1996
Examines the size of child care centers as a factor in designing developmentally appropriate facilities. Proposes as a general principle that, whenever a center is to house more than 75 children, it should be partially decentralized into a village, campus, or articulated series of interconnected houses, with each module serving no more than 60 to…
Descriptors: Building Design, Classroom Design, Day Care, Day Care Centers
Moore, Gary T. – Child Care Information Exchange, 1996
When given the chance, children seek out and create private places in the midst of busy days. This article advises centers to design protected places where small groups or a single child can retreat to observe other children, either from above or horizontally. Suggestions for such "child caves" involve architecture, furniture arrangement, and…
Descriptors: Building Design, Childhood Needs, Classroom Design, Day Care Centers
