Kindergarten for 220 children is located in the newly built prefab housing area"Varshavskie Ogni" of Yuzhny Chertanovo in the outskirts of Moscow, also designed by Buromoscow.
We have decided for a round building with rectangular interior courtyard, when faced with the irregular plot shape (more a result of existing spatial planning norms than a conscious planning choice).
The round volume turns the kindergarten into the main building of the quarter. The striped glazing of the ground floor makes the kindergarten part of the courtyard spaces of the entire urban block. On the first and second floors, there are fish, jellyfish, and shrimp-shaped windows. Colored glass is used in the corridors of the courtyard.
Each of the three floors is occupied by groups of different ages: the youngest children (up to 3 years old) live on the ground level, which is fully glazed. Glazing in the interior courtyard is partially colored to give beautiful color shadows in the corridors.
The physical culture and music halls, administrative offices, and rooms for middle age kids are situated on the first floor. Pre-school-age children use the premises on the second floor. There is also a circle for different educational activities and a terrace for walking on an exploited roof.
The interior is light and simple taking into consideration the amount of colorful toys to fill the space later.
Each floor has its color accent – yellow, orange or blue.