Discovery Meadows is a two-story, 23,500-square-foot child development center designed to accommodate 180 children, from infancy to six years of age. The facility in Gaithersburg, Maryland, also provides after-school program facilities for 40 school-age children of the 4,000 employees based at this biopharmaceutical research and development campus. Play spaces surround the building footprint, providing age-appropriate play areas for each group of students. This facility was designed as a curving linear building facing north and south on the long sides, supported by extensive resilient features, starting with geothermally driven radiant floor slabs.

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The center is built with an upper and lower level, with the lower level providing three 30-student preschool rooms opening onto the lower level outside play areas. Each classroom throughout the facility provides student restrooms. The staff lounge, a warming kitchen, the after-school care area, a small library, mechanical and electrical rooms and office space are also provided on this level.