Tache Community Daycare | Lorette, MB

Tache Daycare, located in Lorette, Manitoba is a stimulating learning environment for infant, preschool, and school age children. In partnership with the daycare committee MCM developed their vision into an interesting and compelling centre, meeting their expressed needs and desires of spaces for children to play, learn, think, and explore as they develop their physical and mental senses.

MCM explored materials and residential forms to create a flow of space where form, texture, and colour invite children to play, interact, and imagine. Windows varying in size and height enhance the interior environment by allowing natural daylight to envelop the space.

Use of interior spatial forms, in particular ceilings, MCM created patterns and shapes with simple drywall bulkheads that assisted in defining special reading or activity zones so children exposed to these different volumes of space could relate this to various activities offered in the daycare.

Interior spaces are organized on a central spine that connects the various daycare activity zones. This layout was simplified for the children and is in contrast to the activity zones directly off of the main spine where the spatial environment is a nurturing, synergistic environment for play and learning.