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3 Key Internal and External Spaces
- Key Internal and Associated External Spaces: Overall Design Issues
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- Internal Spaces for Children
- Overarching features: integrated, playful and multisensory spaces
- Overarching features: flexible spaces for movement and active play
- Overarching features: design for all children
- Design features for children under 12 months
- Design features for children aged 1 to 2-years
- Design features for children aged 2 to 3 and aged 3 to 5 years
- Design features for children aged 6 to 14 years
- Design features for sleep and rest
- Children’s toilets
- Nappy changing areas
- Outdoor clothing and footwear changing areas
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- External Spaces and the Outdoors
- Overall Design considerations and awareness
- Creating a relationship between indoor and outdoor spaces
- Covered outdoor spaces
- Outdoor spaces: designing for all children
- Outdoor spaces: designing for infants and toddlers
- Outdoor spaces: roof terraces and balconies
- Outdoor spaces: outdoor toilets or direct access to toilets
- External storage of outdoor toys and materials
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- Key Internal and Associated External Spaces: Overall Design Issues
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- Internal Spaces for Children
- Overarching features: integrated, playful and multisensory spaces
- Overarching features: flexible spaces for movement and active play
- Overarching features: design for all children
- Design features for children under 12 months
- Design features for children aged 1 to 2-years
- Design features for children aged 2 to 3 and aged 3 to 5 years
- Design features for children aged 6 to 14 years
- Design features for sleep and rest
- Children’s toilets
- Nappy changing areas
- Outdoor clothing and footwear changing areas
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- External Spaces and the Outdoors
- Overall Design considerations and awareness
- Creating a relationship between indoor and outdoor spaces
- Covered outdoor spaces
- Outdoor spaces: designing for all children
- Outdoor spaces: designing for infants and toddlers
- Outdoor spaces: roof terraces and balconies
- Outdoor spaces: outdoor toilets or direct access to toilets
- External storage of outdoor toys and materials
Ancillary Spaces
40. Staff Room, Mallow Community Childcare, Mallow, County Cork
Staff Room, Mallow Community Childcare, Mallow, County Cork.
Design features
- Spacious staff room with good visibility from the circulation areas.
- A selection of tables means that staff can have breaks alone or in a larger group, as they choose.
- Good circulation space, facilitates staff who may use a wheelchair or mobility aids.
Design tip
- Having blinds on the windows would provide privacy if the circulation area is in
use.
