Location: Federal Way, WA As part of a Federal Way youth and education complex, this Head Start Child Care Center is sited to allow for both intimate courtyard spaces and secure outdoor play areas on a busy campus. Osborn Consulting, Inc. (OCI) team members developed the overall site design for the larger campus in addition
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Location: Peninsula College, Port AngelesOwner: Peninsula Community College The new Educare Center in Building K at Peninsula College is carefully sited next to wetlands and the campus Longhouse. This building holds space for the Allied Health program, Early Childhood professional technical education, and the Early Childhood Development Center with both pre-K and toddler play areas.
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Location: Bremerton, WAOwner: Olympic College This outdoor teaching facility provides diverse natural play environments that support physical and sensory development for infants and children up to five years old. The play courtyard offers opportunities for dynamic, large group play and quiet, individual discovery. The playground was designed to encourage children to scramble over logs, dig in
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Location: Kirkland, WAOwner: Lake Washington School District This award-winning school provides an outdoor classroom courtyard filled with native northwest plants. Building corridors wrap the courtyard, providing students and visitors with a constant connection to the outdoors. Rainwater runoff is celebrated in a prominently-located basalt water catchment sculpture.
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