Routio day care centre, Finland

Sliding doors bring safety and practicality to day care centres

A school and day care centre were built in Routiomäki community centre, where building started on the 1st of January 2016. The space’s area is 5775 square meters. Routio day care centre was built to fit 66 children from ages 1 to 6. The day care centre needed as practical and safe doors as possible for different openings, so they decided to use mostly sliding doors. One benefit of a sliding door in day care centres is that when sliding doors are open, they are not in the way of the children. Sliding doors were also an easy way to hide big arts and crafts cupboards, which were painted in children friendly colours.

Helaform’s Cover plate set 75 Flow and 75 Flow set were chosen to be used with these sliding doors.

Number of doors: 35 doors
Doors materials: Wood and laminate
Doors weights: 20 – 90 kg