Children Care Centre Budapest
A modern children’s home is not a closed building. The most important questions designing the new children's home were how to integrate the children with the community, give them the feeling of protection of their home and at the same time give them the discipline of the institute. Considering the operational questions, the openness and the accessibility of the buildings, even for the outside world, are very important. So the buildings should not only have good visual connections, transparent layout and easy access for the surrounding residential area, but should also provide security and safety.
Instead of enclosing the area with stonewalls, we suggest forming the borders with the facades of the buidings. The composition of the blocks makes space for open sport fields, with a smaller, closable playground between the buildings. By forming the units, creating a family house atmosphere was our goal. It is also important to keep the sociable and connecting character of the houses. The children spend most of their free time outside that’s why we integrated the design of the playground in the planning.
The living rooms are connected by two. The adjoining spaces can easily be opened together with a sliding door, that’s why one tutor is enough for the night control. For the disabled children we placed a double room on the ground floor of each housing unit. Instead of keeping them all together, they will be spread over the ‘families‘, which makes integration easier, enriches the education of the other children and contributes to a stronger relation with the community. The tutor’s room is next to the room of the disabled children, which enables good assistance for these children.
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