As we all know,“Early childhood is the most imaginative period in our life.” A good kindergarten can bring this kind of environment for children and provide children with a variety of experiences, which allows children to contact with nature, learn some interesting knowledge, and entertain freely, encourage children to explore the unknown, and stimulate the creativity, so that every child can grow up happily and freely. So, how should we create a kindergarten outdoor environmental design space full of children’s interest, which can stimulate children’s curiosity and release their imagination?
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Kindergarten Shop Front
In the kindergarten design, people’s first impression comes from the kindergarten shop front, and the shop front plays the most direct role in the display of the kindergarten image. Furthermore, a perfect shop front design is one of the key points in kindergarten landscape design. Through bright colors and morphological abstraction of the door design define the attributes of children's use of space.
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Kindergarten Devices
The shape of outdoor construction facilities and equipment should have the features of children’s interest and through refining and processing children's familiar toys and images, the designer combines these elements and symbols to be lively and innocent shapes, creating novel and unique fairy tale artistic conception.
Kindergarten Outdoor Playground Equipment—Aerial Gallery
The aerial gallery enhances the inclusiveness of the whole outdoor amusement device whose 3D space not only solves the problem that a variety of kindergartens lack outdoor activity space, but also utilizes the size difference between children and adults to create a number of sections shaped like small houses, producing a rich sense of spatial visual hierarchy. Furthermore, when children are climbing, the distance and height are constantly changing. Therefore, climbing each new point will bring a new sense and experience to children’s vision, which is beneficial to cultivating children’s spatial concept, allows children to observe the environment a from new perspective, exercises children’s physical strength, and adds some interest.
Kindergarten Devices
The path has the function of connecting traffic and organizing space, and it is the bond of each functional part, forming the frame and network of the whole kindergarten outdoor environment. Generally, kindergarten has more hard activity venues, and the design of the path usually combines with hard space and places the traffic function in the square. Moreover,the design of the path should try to avoid being dull and adopt the curved form and characteristic paving to increase children’s interest and amusement joy.
Kindergarten outdoor environment design should be aimed at serving children, and the design of various activity spaces and the arrangement of amusement facilities should conform to the psychological characteristics, physical features, and activity scales of the children group. On the basis of the diverse needs of children’s activities, it is necessary to create a relaxing, natural, functional outdoor activity place for kids and endow the place with certain aesthetic education connotations, making the environment have the potential role of edutainment,so that children can increase their knowledge and cultivate their sentiments in the fun.
