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What design elements affect playground use? What defines a well-designed primary school? What features do children want in common hospital spaces? Recent studies answer these questions.
Is it a surprise that boys and girls have different color preferences?
How should outdoor play areas at schools be designed?
Spoken language is inherently distracting.
Accessibility and theme affect what is visited.
Several recent articles have probed the importance of integrating nature into academic design.
An American Academy of Pediatrics Committee and the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) have come out with updated design guidelines to prevent children from falling out of windows.
Green environments around schools, such as green playgrounds and window views, might help ADD children, or even all children, function more effectively.
Design suggestions for child-safe environments are shared not only to aid designers in their current projects, but with the hope that they may someday be incorporated into a more comprehensive set of standards for safety in children’s facilities.
Gary Siebein and Martin Gould, both from The University of Florida at Gainesville, and Glenn Siebein and Michael Ermann (Siebein Associates) investigated typical classrooms to determine how architectural changes can improve a student’s acoustical situation.