West Los Angeles, CA

The UCLA Child Care Center is a child care campus designed to serve the University of California Los Angeles student and faculty community in West Los Angeles.  Located in the VTBS master-planned University Village Student Housing, this facility serves 171 children in three child care programs.

The planning of this campus evolved from the carefully balanced relationships between the three systems, each with its independently administered operation and programmatic requirements.  The site design re-interprets the Campus Quad concept in a series of courtyard playgrounds surrounded and interconnected with covered outdoor walkways.  The buildings are carefully located to both define the shared-use areas and the required separations while preserving the integrity of the campus as one.