Edgerley Family Horizons Center. horizons for homeless children

The new Edgerley Family Horizons Center enables Horizons for Homeless Children to fulfill its mission to provide high-quality early education and child care with comprehensive support services for families experiencing homelessness. The early education center includes outdoor play spaces for infants, toddlers and preschoolers.

The design of the outdoor spaces incorporates trauma-informed design strategies to better support Horizons’ children and families. Built on top of the parking garage, the two play areas (north playground - 8,000 SF, south playground - 2,000 SF) spaces provide a safe and protected space for 234 children to explore outdoor learning in the heart of an urban neighborhood. The south Infant playground provides a bright, sunny spot with a variety of play elements and sensory opportunities for the young children to explore, including a play hill with embankment slide, musical instruments amongst flowering vines and natural grasses.

The toddler and preschool play areas offer passive and active activities including a quiet “nook” space with an artist-painted wall mural for small group gathering and storytelling, climbing elements for gross motor play, sand and water play elements and trike tracks and open turfed areas for running around.

*Phase 1 completed as studioMLA Architects prior to acquisition by Ashley McGraw Architects