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CHAPTER 5: PLANNING FOR SPACE AND LOCATION � The location must allow for all exits and entrances to be secured. Normally, movement should be restricted through one main entrance and perhaps an additional service entry. Where possible, maximum visibility of entry points from inside the center should be provided. � The location must be a defensible space with a secure perimeter and controlled access. � The security assessment may recommend the center entrance be separate from the main building entrance in order to reduce congestion and to address security considerations. � The security assessment may recommend that a guard station should be located near the center so that surveillance of comings and goings to the center are easily seen by posted guards. Alternatively, a form of surveillance will be provided. 5.8 Approach and Access If possible, the center location should be within walking distance of public transportation. Ensure that bicyclists and persons using mass transit also have safe approaches to the building and do not endanger child or adult pedestrians. The center location should be within walking distance of the work place and Federal transportation. 5.9 Historic Preservation The decision to locate a center in a National Historic Building must take into consideration the historic preservation requirements outlined in the latest edition of GSA’s Facility Standards for the Public Buildings Service. If located in a historic building, the GSA Region’s office responsible for historic preservation must be contacted and made a part of the process at an early stage of planning the center. Play yard location is also a vital consideration in assessing the effect of the center location on historic structures or neighborhoods. 5.10 Children’s Spaces 5.10.1 Classrooms: A classroom is the architecturally defined area that contains each group of children and their teacher(s). Classrooms may be separated by full partitions or partial barriers that allow controlled visual or acoustical connections to 5-4 other groups. However, at least one interior viewing panel, at children’s height, is required both adjacent to corridors and between classrooms where possible. The classrooms themselves should be as open as possible, allowing supervision and the penetration of natural light. The classroom contains the required spaces for all recommended activities, as well as spaces for personal care. It should be flexible enough to support variable demographics of the clientele as well as to allow program adjustments to serve fluctuating demand for child care services. Adequate space is also necessary for storing children’s and teacher’s personal items, curriculum materials, supplies, and equipment. Space should conform to NAEYC accreditation and local licensing requirements. 5.10.2 Common Spaces: Spaces shared by more than one group are included in this category. The designer needs to be cognizant that the child may spend very few hours of the day in his or her home. The center becomes the “home away from home” for the child . The design should convey this impression. A common area that “feels” like the core of the center is an excellent organizing concept and one which will dispel an institutional feeling, especially if it is treated in a “home-like” way. This may be simply an area of the circulation that provides a stopping place that allows social interaction. However, it should not be the multi-purpose room. Circulation through the multi-purpose room has proved to be an undesirable design feature. Other common areas may consist of one or more of the following: multiplepurpose area, large motor activity area, meeting/gathering area, and a separate sick bay (if the latter is required to meet local licensing requirements). 5.10.3 Play Yards: Play yards are outdoor extensions of the classrooms, providing many of the same opportunities as indoor spaces. Play yards should provide for a variety of developmentally appropriate activities and include storage for curriculum equipment as well as wheeled toys, trikes and wagons. Spending time on the playground is undoubtedly the preferred activity of children. Therefore, to the greatest extent possible, the designer should arrange ease of access to the play yard from the classroom and maximum adult supervision. PBS-140 - July 2003
5.11 Adult Spaces 5.11.1 Parent Spaces: Spaces within the center that are used by parents include the entry, reception/”living room” area, conference room, and the classroom (for observing, visiting, conferring with teachers, and feeding infants). Parents should have direct access to a staff toilet room. A lactation area should offer privacy for nursing mothers, preferably near the nap area. This need not be an enclosed room, or even a partitioned area. 5.11.2 Staff Spaces: The spaces used by teachers and directors are the staff resource room, the classroom and play yard areas, the entry and reception areas, offices, conference and lounge, resource storage, and adult toilets. 5.11.3 Service Spaces: The spaces allocated for service and support to the center include the kitchen and food storage, laundry, janitor’s closet, as well as the electrical/ mechanical and telephone service equipment room. 5.11.4 Circulation: This term applies to the space dedicated to major pathways which connect all the interior spaces. PBS-140 - July 2003 CHAPTER 5: PLANNING FOR SPACE AND LOCATION 5.13 Example Space Programs The following table provides an example of a space program for a 74-child center. This population is based upon workable child/staff ratios which also tends to be economically sustainable. While this is the typical sized center, others, such as 94 and 148, are possible with correct staff ratio and group size. Requirements are stated in AFA and OFA per child to allow the user to modify the program to the actual enrollment capacity anticipated for specific projects. The combination of groups for an actual project may vary from those used in these examples, depending upon the needs of the proposed center. No classroom should provide less than 4.5 sq. meters per child of activity space within the classroom, with the exception of infants, which should not be less then 4.875 sq. meters because much of their “Activity” time is spent sleeping. At more then 148 children, consider making a two pod arrangement so the center maintains its small scale feeling for the child. 5-5
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