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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
Shared Central Areas, Family Rooms, and Dining Areas
01. Northside Family Resource Centre, Ballynanty, Limerick City
Northside Family Resource Centre, Ballynanty, Limerick City.
Design features
- Central space provides a shared play area for children of different age groups.
- It functions as a central social space for families.
Design tip
- Changes in floor colour or tone may cause issues for some people with sensory, physical or cognitive difficulties.
