The building challenges familiar distinctions between illusions and facts, two dimensions and three, surface, volume, and mass.  The first impression one gets is the pattern of colored concrete shingles which fluctuate between square and diamond depending upon the angle of surface and the point of observation. Its components are neither sufficiently large to read as figures nor sufficiently complete or repeated to become the elements of a consistent texture. The bulk of the building seems stretched and flattened to front both the street and the parking lot; its withdrawal, marked by bleachers, provides a foreground for the play area and immediate access to the core of the building. As a result, the playground gains a position of prominence contiguous to the interior programmatic volumes; together they create the entry and public areas. 
 

The formal and spatial configurations of the building relate to the perceived as well as actual differences in size between adults and children. The vertically attenuated volume provides adult and community services (family workers, health and nutrition, staff conference/observation) and the horizontally attenuated space shelters the educational facilities (children's classrooms, parent training/observation). An interactive spatial link is situated at the point when the initial programmatic volumes (adult and children, gathering and play, all which are subtle permutations of one another) intersect to form shared gathering areas (entry, kitchen, multi-purpose room, mezzanine, terraces and playground). Within the complex interstices of the intersections exist the most fluid spaces: upper staff conference/observation rooms float above and between classrooms, the terrace beside the play area links with the upper multi-purpose room and extends into the mezzanine level which rests on the edge of the kitchen below. Views are shared between the upper story and each of the classrooms below. Balconies and joined common areas are illuminated by clerestory and strategically isolated windows.