Space for Kids
Familiarizing Adventure
Familiarizing Adventure: Designing Environments for Early Childhood Education _ Isabel Potworowski
– La Barrosa Infant Pavilion_Gabriel Verd Arquitectos
– ACT for Kids_m3architecture
– Brutalist Playground_Assemble + Simon Terrill
– Clover House Kindergarten_MAD Architects
– Jerry House_Onion
– Hanazono Kindergarten and Nursery_Hibinosekkei + Youji no Shiro
– The Youth Wing for Art Education, Israel Museum Jerusalem_Ifat Finkelman +
Deborah Pinto Fdeda
– Cassarate Kindergarten_Bruno Fioretti Marquez
– Nursery in Buhl_Dominique Coulon & Associes
– Kindergarten in Stabio_studio we architetti
– Nursery and Primary School in Saint-Denis_Paul Le Quernec
– Nursery School in Haro_Taller Basico de Arquitectura
– Prangins Kindergarten_Pierre-Alain Dupraz
– Amanenomori Nursery School_Aisaka Architects’ Atelier
– Child Day Care Center_Burobill & ZAmpone architectuur
– Space for Children – Kaleidoscope_A2arquitectos
Space for Kids
Familiarizing Adventure
Familiarizing Adventure: Designing Environments for Early Childhood Education _ Isabel Potworowski
Designing environments for educating young children is a fascinating endeavour, because through them, they are guided in their discovery of the world. How can the design of these environments kindle children’s natural curiosity and eagerness to learn? What kind of conditions encourage children to explore different activities, and to develop their personal interests? A balance between two opposing but complementary spatial qualities is needed: on the one hand, designs of contemporary kindergartens and nurseries provide spaces that can simultaneously host a variety of different activities, and that are rich in visual stimuli. In this way, they engage children in self-directed play. On the other hand, they provide a familiar and secure environment by organizing learning spaces around a central, intimate “home base”, by establishing a domestic scale, and by designing a protective exterior and entrance. By doing so, they create an environment that resembles a home, from which children can confidently venture out to explore the world around them.
Space for Kids
Familiarizing Adventure
Familiarizing Adventure: Designing Environments for Early Childhood Education _ Isabel Potworowski
Designing environments for educating young children is a fascinating endeavour, because through them, they are guided in their discovery of the world. How can the design of these environments kindle children’s natural curiosity and eagerness to learn? What kind of conditions encourage children to explore different activities, and to develop their personal interests? A balance between two opposing but complementary spatial qualities is needed: on the one hand, designs of contemporary kindergartens and nurseries provide spaces that can simultaneously host a variety of different activities, and that are rich in visual stimuli. In this way, they engage children in self-directed play. On the other hand, they provide a familiar and secure environment by organizing learning spaces around a central, intimate “home base”, by establishing a domestic scale, and by designing a protective exterior and entrance. By doing so, they create an environment that resembles a home, from which children can confidently venture out to explore the world around them.
