A daycare center is the first educational institution for children from 5 years of age, and is a public building that exists everywhere like a police station, a fire station, or a community center. As the increasing importance of daycare center with high symbolism and specificity as a place for future generations, this study suggest desirable development directions for national daycare center. This study proves the necessity of design guidelines to establish basic spatial environment and plan directions for national daycare center, and proposes guidelines for national daycare center.
First of all, we verified the necessity of design guidelines for national daycare centers. We analyzed the current systems and laws for national daycare centers and identified limitations of planning standards in the current systems. We examined design task order cases for national daycare center planning and design, and surveyed user awareness and physical environment to understand
the current status of national daycare centers.
This study, then, determined the direction of the design guidelines for national daycare centers suggesting the specific design guidelines. Foreign countries’ advanced cases in terms of the daycare center design guidelines such as the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan, were studied to determine directions of design guidelines. In addition to these basic directions of design guidelines,
the final direction of the guidelines was determined and formulated by considering with the problems resulted from the current systems and laws examination. A notification by the Ministry of Health and Welfare was proposed to secure the effectiveness of design guidelines.
Improvement of the relevant laws and regulations was also suggested.