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Pluchke Nursery

ZAmpone’s design for this nursery in Belgium is a view-throughs on children’s size created using warm materials and a bathing in light playing area for the smallest kids.

The projects’ brief consisted of increasing the capacity of the existing daycare center, in a urban context, from 35 to 75 child places.

The existing daycare center was housed in a decrepit church. ZAmpone chooses to demolish and starts with a newbuild.

On the same site there is also a school and a parish hall in the back. The building is the result of an intense cooperation between the landlord and the architect taking into account all the parties on and around the site.

The six living areas for the children are placed on the first floor. This creates a compact footprint on the ground level and a maximal (covered) play area for the daycare center. On the first floor an airy whole benefits from the central skylights and the living area linked terraces.