Green Design for the Comfort Environment of Kindergarten Building in Malaysia: A review

Abstract

Abstract Public buildings such as kindergarten can be used as a potential educational spot in promoting environmental sustainability for the children. Most of the public kindergartens in Malaysia are facing uncomfortable issues, such as due to the poor air ventilation and inefficient design at the respective building and facilities. By promoting green design and sustainability, this paper presents the synthesis of other studies, which consist of the factors and aspect approaches towards the application of green design in developing development of kindergarten building. This paper will review different articles and studies, which have published within 2009 until recently from the selected online database. Through green design at kindergarten, it is hoped to be able to promote sustainability for the children and foster designers to design more friendly buildings for them.