Architecture & Design – July-September 2019

A lot to learn:

Specifying

internal walls

for childcare

centres

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left The joinery wall at Barangaroo eLC is a unique partition system which contains

a range of storage options, windows, doorways, serveries and portals. The cabinets

are a mixture of Laminex, painted MDF and hardwood. Photography by kat Lu.

It must be said that designing an

early learning centre (elC) is a special

beast. there’s the unique set of design

standards and minimum requirements

for things such as floorspace, fall zones,

entrapment, amenity and storage.

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