The evolution of infrastructure facilities for children: from clubs to quantoriums

Abstract

The article is devoted to the development of the concept of children’s technoparks - facilities for supplementary education, which first appeared in Russia in 2015 and were formed largely due to the country’s general purpose clubs and children’s clubs, Houses and Palaces of Pioneers, which included technical creativity centers and stations for young scientists of natural-science orientation. The problem considered in the article consists not only in the semantic and practical, but in the corresponding typological development vector for this direction; the innovative approach to the organization of architectural space; the formation of functional and formal structure of these centers. The main aspects of the development of a new model of community center for children and adolescents are scientific and practical, informational and educational, socio-cultural and communicative, as well as typological approaches to the organization of quantoriums. The system-module approach becomes the basis for the structural organization of a technopark: a set of primary planning elements-modules for work in the relevant areas of future research activity and vocational skills of the students. Examples from architectural practice are given, as an approbation the project of the Children’s Technopark in the city of Yekaterinburg is presented.