Concept Explained

 

My concept is all about the development of a frog and how this development is very similar to the growth of child development.

With my main form I want to show how there is this growth in the buildings changing size around the site. This change will be done in an almost circular formation within the site. This is created with both my curved (learning spaces) and geometric (main functions) buildings through the form of them in a circular setting.

The learning spaces are showing the life cycle from the start years when there is the start of the frog’s development as a tadpole. The change of the sizes getting bigger for each classroom shows how the tadpole will be getting larger and developing new skills like what the children are going through. This then leads onto the main function’s spaces with the hall, kitchen and staff spaces. These spaces are resembling the frog due to this being at the end of the life cycle. This space is shared between everyone in the nursery and has lots of the main spaces that the adults are going to be using and in charge of. This further shows this frog idea as the staff are the oldest and most mature in the building and shows they are the frogs and the children are the tadpoles in a metaphorical way.