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<p>The changing lifestyle makes that children become equal users of urban spaces and more and more often participate in social and business meetings. Shopping malls have long ceased have purely consumer functions, becoming places of entertainment and relaxation. This generates the need to provide child with at least a small recreational space and general adaptation of public spaces to their needs. The paper focuses on free children’s corners in the interiors of selected public premises, presenting the issues from the point of view of an interior designer, as well as based on interviews with their users, equipment manufacturers and owners of premises. The main aim of the study is to explore the issues of separate zones for children in public utility interiors and to define guidelines for the process of their shaping. For this purpose, field studies were carried out, on the basis of which the criteria for the evaluation of objects were prepared. Among others: safety, general impression, adaptation for children with disabilities, equipment, visual attractiveness, educational value, linking the play area with the location, the presence of modern technologies.</p>
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The changing lifestyle makes that children become equal users of urban spaces and more and more often participate in social and business meetings. Shopping malls have long ceased have purely consumer functions, becoming places of entertainment and relaxation. This generates the need to provide child with at least a small recreational space and general adaptation of public spaces to their needs. The paper focuses on free children’s corners in the interiors of selected public premises, presenting the issues from the point of view of an interior designer, as well as based on interviews with their users, equipment manufacturers and owners of premises. The main aim of the study is to explore the issues of separate zones for children in public utility interiors and to define guidelines for the process of their shaping. For this purpose, field studies were carried out, on the basis of which the criteria for the evaluation of objects were prepared. Among others: safety, general impression, adaptation for children with disabilities, equipment, visual attractiveness, educational value, linking the play area with the location, the presence of modern technologies.

Architecture for Children. Research of Selected Cases of Separated Play Zones for Kids in the Public Utility Interiors

Architecture, Civil Engineering, Environment

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The changing lifestyle makes that children become equal users of urban spaces and more and more often participate in social and business meetings. Shopping...

Architecture for Children. Research of Selected Cases of Separated Play Zones for Kids in the Public Utility Interiors

Published Online: Aug 04, 2022

Page range: 21 - 30

Received: May 25, 2021

Accepted: Nov 09, 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21307/acee-2021-028

Keywords
Children’s corners, Interior design, Public interiors, Architecture. Design for kids

© 2021 Beata KOMAR et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Architecture for Children. Research of Selected Cases of Separated Play Zones for Kids in the Public Utility Interiors

Published Online: Aug 04, 2022

Page range: 21 - 30

Received: May 25, 2021

Accepted: Nov 09, 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21307/acee-2021-028

KeywordsChildren’s corners, Interior design, Public interiors, Architecture. Design for kids

© 2021 Beata KOMAR et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Keywords
Children’s corners, Interior design, Public interiors, Architecture. Design for kids