Portfolio: Project Details
Child Study Center Addition
Los Medanos College
Pittsburg, CA
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Interactive Resources provided comprehensive architectural and design services
for the one-story 11,500 square-foot Child Study Center Addition at Los Medanos
College. This project called for the creation of an attractive, highly
functional facility to house the much-needed expansion of the child development
program. The addition serves 12 infants, 24 Toddlers, and 20 Pre-Schoolers.
The Center features comfortable child-scale spaces, utilizing windows, lighting
fixtures, and room finishes to create a residential atmosphere for the
emotional comfort of the children. Each classroom has its own toilet room with
child-sized fixtures, low sinks and counters, crib or nap rooms and cubby
areas.
Easy maintenance and physical comfort are accommodated with two floor finishes
in each classroom: vinyl tile in the “wet” floor area for messy art projects
and adjacent to toilet rooms, and carpet tile in the “dry” area. The design
maximizes natural sunlight into the classrooms, streamlines drop-off and pickup
of the children, includes security measures, provides easy access to exterior
play areas, and allows views of the birds at the nearby lagoon.
The Center includes a laundry room, a comfortable staff lounge and kitchen,
accessible adult toilet rooms, a small conference room, isolation area,
observations areas, and a large classroom/ laboratory for the training of
infant and toddler caregivers. The 30-year-old toilet rooms and kitchen in the
old facility were also upgraded and modernized.
Contextually, the design of the one story, 11,500 square foot building addition
complements the existing architectural style, and creates a favorable “first
impression” in its featured location at the entrance to the campus.
