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(Background and Purpose) The children's exhibition space has become an important place for children to learn, play, and satisfy their curiosity, and provides children's sensory experience, recreation as well as cognitive skills. In particular, sensory experiences that involve physical action can have a significant impact on children's creative development and spatial cognition. In order to stimulate children's emotional resonance, and promote children's cognitive development to obtain a better space experience, the design of sensory experience space for children must be reflected as a key factor in promoting children's healthy growth and development including design-thinking abilities and critical problem-solving skills. Therefore, this article studies the children's exhibition space through the review of precedent children's development theories and domestic cases. On this basis, the physiological, cognitive, and behavioral characteristics of children in the exhibition space are deeply studied. Then, this study proposes a sensory experience space that is optimized for children’s physical and cognitive growth. (Method) First, this study analyzes the previous theoretical research results in the field of children's cognitive development, which systematically explains the process, characteristics, and spatial behavior patterns of children's cognitive development at different ages. Based on these theoretical foundations, we further identify design elements that guide and enrich children's sensory experience. Using the derived elements of sensory experience spaces as a framework for analysis, three existing exhibition spaces for children were analyzed. Through case studies, it was possible to discover the spatial elements, design composition, and improvement points required for dedicated exhibition spaces. (Results) By utilizing the three design elements (physical movement, cognitive thinking, and experiential behavior), the design can be driven to optimize children's sensory experience. In particular, to maximize the sensory experience, light, color, sound, materials, and objects were introduced into each space to stimulate cognitive development and behavior. Specifically, the reasonable use of light and color can adjust the space atmosphere and stimulate children's visual perception and emotional response. Sound design can add fun and encourage children to participate actively. The choice of materials and objects is directly related to children's physical movement and tactile experience, which promotes the deep integration of perception and cognition. (Conclusions) These sensory experience spaces for children will effectively meet their multisensory needs and stimulate their curiosity and desire to explore, which will help trigger not only physical development but also cognitive and psychological development. This proposal for a sensory experience space centered on children's spatial cognitive development may be significant in providing a basis for the design of children's experiential education space.

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