Public space · Moscow

Children’s Educational Centre.

A thousand square metres for children. Public work under the same rule as the apartments: it has to survive the people who use it every day, and still be somewhere they want to be.

Moscow1,000 sq mPublic spaceFull design project

Reception and dining area of the children's educational centre by Anna Arsentyeva in Moscow: living plant walls, slatted timber screen, built-in banquette seating

The brief was a thousand square metres for children: a play area, reading corners, and space that has to survive daily use without ever feeling institutional. Sage and mint foam play blocks sit against slatted timber screens and a book display wall, the same discipline the studio brings to a private apartment applied to a room built for a hundred children rather than one family.

Planning drawing for the eco-space “Garden-Vegetable Garden” zone: layout, section and two rendered views — 01 · Planning Drawing

Curved reading room with full-height bookshelves and built-in bench seating either side of a central lecture area — 02 · Reading Room

Space-themed activity room with a hand-painted rocket mural, modular play blocks and a long low activity table — 03 · Activity Room

Ball pit with a timber slide, climbing frame and mini golf lane along the back wall — 04 · Play Area

Rocket-ship play structure with slide and ball pit against a sage green panelled wall — 05 · Rocket Play Structure

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