From the 2026 Educational Interiors Showcase: The Moriah School Early Childhood Center
Key Highlights
- The center draws inspiration from the natural wetlands near Englewood.
- A soaring communal space is filled with natural light.
- Turf-like tiered seating encourages children to gather, climb, and explore.
- Interactive walls offer LEGO, magnet tiles, sensory boards, and climbing features for different developmental stages.
Moriah’s Early Childhood Center reimagines learning spaces as living landscapes where every element supports diverse developmental needs. Adjacent to Englewood’s natural wetlands, the center brings the biophilic qualities of this unique setting indoors and creates year-round connection to nature through materiality, color, and spatial experience.
The Early Childhood Center opens into a soaring communal space flooded with natural light. Tiered seating covered in turf-like surfaces invites children to gather, climb, and feel the sensation of grass beneath them. Interactive walls featuring both standard and Duplo-scale LEGO blocks, magnet tiles, sensory boards, and climbing walls create different complexities supporting varied abilities and developmental stages.
Read more about the The Moriah School Early Childhood Center and view a photo gallery at SchoolDesigns.com.
