WONDER YEARS NURSERY SCHOOL

The Wonder Years Nursery School is Dubai Sport City's very own purpose built kindergarten nursery that ties the indoors and outdoors with playful spatiality. Working on the client's brief to maximise the potential of the site, Delhi NCR based architects, r+d studio envisioned the twelve classrooms strung around a common central space that facilitates learning beyond the physical boundaries of classrooms. The central court is designed as the soul of the nursery, bringing the children together in a hub of programs, such as an art zone, a gymnasium, a role play area and an open courtyard. The main concept behind the planning of the nursery was to design a space that blurs the indoors and outdoors with the learning environment such that the built environment stimulates and aids in development of the students and their cognitive skills. By creating multiple uses of the same spaces, the teachers and the students are able to define the complex relationship that transpires between 'space' and it’s 'use'. This substantiates the integral philosophy by which the architects look at design - the phenomenology of space and its association to a

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