Kindergarten Vashavskoye by Buromoscow

Kindergarten for 220 children is located in the newly built prefab housing area in the outskirts of Moscow, also designed by Buromoscow.

Architect: Buromoscow
Location: Moscow, Russia
Year: 2017
Gross Built Area: 3,780 m2
Lead Architects: Julia Burdova, Olga Aleksakova, Jezi Stankevic, Olga Vlasenko
Team: Olga Vlasenko, Maria Serova, Anastasia Fedoseeva, Timur Magichev, Vasily Goncharov, Nelya Sabirova
Interior Team: Olga Vlasenko, Maria Serova, Nastya Fedoseeva
Engineers: NPC Monolit
Landscape: Gillespies
Lighting: Q-PRO
General Designer: Buromoscow
Contractor: GK PIK
Photo Credits: Vlad Feoktistov, Serafima Telkanova

From the architect: 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).

Windows at the first and second floor are shaped as different sea creatures – fish, shrimp and jellyfish. Ground floor, where the youngest children are, is fully glazed. Glazing in the interior courtyard is partially colored to give beautiful color shadows in the corridors.

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.

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