YUMING BAI
Interiors

Kids Dream

The interior of a children's career experience centre, laid out as a city at child scale.

Year
2013–2014
Role
Schematic design and design development, with dot Architects
Location
Baoding, China
Tags
interior · children's space · role play
Aircraft fuselage set among play equipment under a ceiling painted as sky

Kids Dream is the interior of a children’s career experience centre in Baoding, China. It is a separate project that follows on from the Botanical Garden Visitor Center. The interior was designed in 2013–2014 for a building area of about 25,000 m². Within the dot Architects team, Yuming Bai worked on schematic design and design development.

A city at child scale

The floor is organised as streets lined with small-scale buildings: a fire station, a department store, cafés and shopfronts, where children try out adult occupations. A continuous ceiling painted as sky ties the streets together.

Fire station facade with a child-size fire engine on the street Café seating beside a curved information kiosk

Interior street of shopfronts under the painted-sky ceiling

Department store with a perforated metal facade and a large display screen Brick-faced buildings and a large mural at a street corner

Completed interior

The photographs show the finished interior in early 2015.

Open hall with a stage and seating framed by shopfronts