Eddington Street children’s day centre

The brief required a nursery to DHSS standards with six group rooms for eight to nine children and two babies' rooms for up to five children each. Lavatories and lockers, laundry room kitchen and staff facilities are all accessed from the central spine.

The group rooms are arranged along the southern and eastern sides of the plan, with staff rooms and kitchen situated in the northern corner. The babies' rooms are separated by a walled garden to reduce the chance of disturbance by the older children.

High level windows allow natural daylight into the north facing rooms and central play area. The group rooms running along the eastern and southern side have large windows running the length of their exterior walls and a covered canopy to aid with solar shading. The timber roof trusses project beyond the glazed screens and are either supported on timber edge beams and posts or on second hand stock brickwork.