This is an interior project for a nursery school in Guangzhou for 0–6-year-old children. In high-rise building which has limited floor space, it’s difficult for children to create plays that stimulates five senses. But in this nursery school, children can feel nature in daily life and create spontaneous play and multi-directional communication by the following approaches.

It’s low partitions and glass wall that divide classrooms. Dividing vaguely with low partition makes people free from a feeling of pressure but gives a feeling of freedom even in narrow space. Low partition makes teachers easier to watch over children’s activity, and at the same time it makes children concentrate on their imagination world in playing. Also, through windows between classrooms children can have communication with friends playing in other class.

Generally, the floor of built-in nursery school is flat so that they cannot have up-down motions like  ‘climb’, ‘climb down’, ‘jump up’, ‘jump down’ and so on in daily life. But in play corners of SDL Nursery there are many steps where children can take exercise while playing. By playing in this environment, they can improve their body balance and physical strength naturally.

▼保育室，nursery room ©曾毅