Early childhood experiences have a strong influence on most of the perception models which are to accompany us throughout our lives; this awards an even higher importance to the environment where we learn about the world and how such environment conditions our interactions. This is why we started from the idea of an expansive, bright and pastel space, freed from typical nursery cliches, to invite a child’s physical, and also imaginative explorations. The functional separation is turned into dialogue, dissolving the usual division between the classroom and the nap room, inside and outside, up and down, etc. The class space is unitary and needs to be conquered, discovered, fully appropriated: a safari in a miniature universe with interior facades, multiple staircases, full of multifunctional characters and permeable limits.<\/p>\n
Building new nurseries is an exception in the recent romanian architectural production, most of these social endowments being created upon standardized solutions which need updating. The opportunity for such an experiment was the expansion of the Ursulețul nursery in Cluj-Napoca’s Mănăștur neighbourhood.<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\n Located off-centre in the neighbourhood, the location is surrounded by collective housing buildings made of precast panels, following the principle of the micro-regions in the ‘70s. Nevertheless, its proximity to the forest and the abundant vegetation gives it a landscaped and protective atmosphere.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n![\"02_AB_Cresa](\"https:\/\/e-zeppelin.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/02_AB_Cresa-Ursuletul-3.jpg\")
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