Designer Danielle Brustman used pastel colours, marmoleum flooring and playful hand-painted murals to create the interior of the Brighton Street Early Learning Centre in a brutalist building in Melbourne.
Each playroom in the concrete building, which was converted by Perkins Architects into a childcare centre, was allocated its own motif, which includes a river, meadow, star, sun and cloud. Brustman used these themes to come up with a narrative, treatment and palette for each space.
"The brief and scope for this project was so exciting as the clients were after something bold and unique," Brustman told Dezeen.
"I regularly use colour in my interior design work but it's not often I get the opportunity to be as bold with colours specification." Top image: a rainbow mural decorates a wall. Above: the designer used 47 different colours within the centre
She used 47 colours in total for the early learning centre, which is located in Richmond, Melbourne, adapting them based on the themes of each room and pushing the colour palette to its limits.
"I wanted it to be complex and colourful whilst still adhering to a level of sophistication, gentleness and balance," she said.
Geometric designs decorate the walls
Brustman also added several wall murals, hand-painted by Ben Maitland, to the design, which she hopes will be a source of inspiration and creativity for the children.
The graphic murals feature star bursts, boats made from circles and triangles, r...