Child Care Center

Although child care facilities are one of the most tightly regulated building types in the state of California, the scheme for the Child Care Center in Culver City is anything but institutional.

Crowned with an undulating metal roof, the 9,000 square foot center features a diversity of spaces incorporating stimulating tactile surfaces and textures, recycled materials and spatial qualities that proclaim the structure is for kids to learn and have fun.

The entire facility is cradled by a sinous roof that creates a variety of soaring and intimate spaces.

The semi-helix curvature results from setting the end of laminated wood beams at six-foot intervals on a stair step progression of brightly colored steel support columns.

Since the tallest columns at the front of the building are opposite the shortest in the rear, and vice versa, progressions of oppositely angled roof beams converge at the center of the structure.