Empty early childhood school classroom before renovation, natural light streaming through window, quiet and full of potential
No one builds a house for a family they haven’t met. Stated that way, it sounds obvious — you’d never design a kitchen before knowing whether the people living in it cook elaborate meals or barely use the stove, never lay out bedrooms before knowing how many children there are or how they actually move through a morning. The vision has to come first.
Why Sequence Matters in an Early Childhood School Renovation
A budget can tell you what’s affordable. It cannot tell you what’s needed. A square footage can tell you what fits. It cannot tell you what should go where, or why. This is the entire premise behind the Design DNA Method: deep listening before any design decision gets made