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Gwangjin Kium Care Center For Children by Jaesung Kim

Gwangjin Kium Care Center For Children by Jaesung Kim is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award in Interior Space and Exhibition Design Competition Category.


IronInterior· 2022

Gwangjin Kium Care Center For Children

by Jaesung Kim

Client: Jaesung kim

A' Design Award Winner in Interior Category

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Verified Award Winner

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The Design

About Gwangjin Kium Care Center For Children

Gwangjin Kium is a care center for children aged six to twelve, planned for use after school hours. The interior is divided into a static space and a dynamic space, and moving walls allow the two areas to be joined into a single room for events. The walls are integrated with bookshelves and play features that support creativity and imagination. Rooms and corridors are kept open so that teachers and children can communicate easily. Green accents and natural birch wood create a calm and warm atmosphere. Modular cabinet furniture is portable and can be rearranged.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award

Gwangjin Kium Care Center For Children is an Iron A' Design Award winner, a prestigious recognition granted to good designs that meet the professional and industrial requirements expected from well-designed creations. Iron winners demonstrate great skill, high specialization, expert understanding, and creative capacity of their creators. Gwangjin Kium Care Center For Children is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished creation that is practical and innovative. This Iron A' Design Award-winning design integrates industry best practices and has competent technical characteristics linked with know-how and talent. Gwangjin Kium Care Center For Children is respected for its thoroughness and is designed to provide quality of life improvements that help make the world a better place.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties
The purpose of this facility is to provide intensive care for children aged 6 to 12 after school. It provides a static space and a dynamic space and safely resolves the care gap when elementary school students' parents cannot take care of themselves.
Dimensions & Packaging
10,000mm x 13,000mm
Tags
Desk, Wood, Wooden Desk, Desk Design, Wood Design, Furniture, Furniture Design
Production Technology
It consists of module cabinet furniture and is planned to be a space that exerts potential in interaction with students by making it a portable furniture that can move comfortably.
Design Challenge
There is still a gap in caring due to the segmented and redundant provision of public childcare services.
Ultimately, it acts as a cause of women's career development and abandonment of economic activities.
Research
Expansion of centers available around homes and schools.
A safe space zone considering regional demand and child characteristics.
There is a need to expand the existing primary care infrastructure and improve the quality of service.
Inspiration
The walls were integrated into bookstores and amusement facilities to stimulate students' creativity, imagination, and five senses. Each room and corridor gives an open feeling so that communication between teachers and students can be made immediately.

Green, the most stable and tranquil color among the colors, is used as a point, and the natural birch wood color is utilized so that you can live in a comfortable and warm space.
Project Duration
This child center project began in December 2020 and was completed in March 2021.
Operation Flow
Elementary care blind spots are eliminated and safe care services are provided. This child center project is divided into dynamic and static spaces, and can be used as a single space by applying moving walls according to events
Patents
Copyrights belong to CSDG
Team Members
Jungsook Lee
Image Credits
Image #1: JungSook Lee Photographer, 2021
Image #2: JungSook Lee Photographer, 2021
Image #3: JungSook Lee Photographer, 2021
Image #4: JungSook Lee Photographer, 2021
Image #5: JungSook Lee Photographer, 2021

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