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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
External Spaces and the Outdoors
45. Bernie’s Pre-school, Knockainey, County Limerick
Bernie’s Pre-school, Knockainey, County Limerick.
Design features
- Trees, flower planting, rough logs and bark providing a natural, multi-sensory play area.
- Challenge and risk on logs and swinging tyres.
- Table and benches for outdoor eating.
Design tip
- Ensure that there are areas outdoors and accessible routes that children and adults who use wheelchairs or mobility aids can use easily.
