Mills College Children School

Mills College Children's School

In November 2014, the school committee at Mills College Children’s Lab School began a design process to enrich their current K-5 Yard as well as their Geranium Pre-K yard. Many aspects were considered while developing a master plan and follow-up design build plan. Both yards were designed for flexible programming, easy storage, and seasonal comfort while fostering imaginative play, nature play, creative constructive play, and ecological learning. Central considerations for the site program and design also included; ensuring inclusion, providing opportunities for collaborative play, making the entire outdoors a classroom, and modeling possibilities for student teachers. The first phase of improvements based on the master plan were installed in the summer of 2015.

Project Information

Client: Mills College Children’s School

Location: Oakland, CA

Size: Master Plan, 0.5 Acres

Construction: 2015

BAY TREE DESIGN

A landscape architecture firm serving Berkeley, Oakland, and the greater San Francisco Bay Area, Bay Tree Design, Inc. provides collaborative design and planning services to a wide range of clients. We strive for three-way sustainability: environmental, community and economic. We support the renovation of our cultural construct for landscapes with healthy ecological processes, community reflection and beneficial children’s landscapes in our work. We seek to make the sum of the parts greater than the whole with each project we help nurture from concept to physical construct.

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