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Sumit Singhal loves modern architecture. He comes from a family of builders who have built more than 20 projects in the last ten years near Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about the architectural projects that catch his imagination. Kindergarten as a home, a playground and a small city in Poznań, Poland by Atelier Starzak StrebickiAugust 20th, 2020 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: Atelier Starzak Strebicki To paraphrase the words of a Dutch architect, an experienced designer of schools and kindergartens, Herman Herzberger: the space of a kindergarten/school is both a house, a playground and a small town. These words, we can treat as a brief definition of what is essential in the design of children’s place. On the one hand, kindergarten interiors should be an asylum, quiet place where one can feel like at home, avoid and rest from too many stimuli. On the other hand, space should offer a possibility of various games: for a group and an individual, involving movement and intellectual ones, thanks to which children learn through play and gain new skills.
For a child, kindergarten is also a small city, understood as a space shared with others and for which together they care, where they meet new-strangers, make first friendships, learn to cooperate and about mutual relations, thus gaining social competence for the future. In this context, the way and quality in the design of buildings and interiors of kindergartens play a significant role in the education process and in shaping responsible, creative and empathic attitudes among the young generation, which in the future will be responsible for the quality of social capital. When the child is still growing, it is essential to choose the appropriate furniture and arrange the room, that the user had the opportunity to play, learn and experiment. Boys and girls need many different stimuli to develop their creativity and motor skills, which is why we wanted children to be able to move and partially arrange the space according to their own needs. The object does not have only one purpose, but as much as a preschooler can dream. The idea of multifunctional spaces in the projects below allows fun and learning activities to be combined. Contact Atelier Starzak Strebicki
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