Větrník kindergarten by structure: a free-form complicated
As a part of a brand new growth plan for the Říčany-Větrník space in Czech Republic, native observe Architektura Studio constructed an unusually whimsical kindergarten targeted on sports activities and gymnasium actions. ‘I designed three objects and linked them – a kindergarten, a gymnasium and a backyard. The gymnasium shall be constructed whereas the kindergarten and a part of the backyard are already constructed,’ says the studio.
Drawing inspiration from ‘the kid as a phenomenon’, Architektura designed a free-form complicated with outstanding, colourful blocks wherein the lecture rooms are held. These buildings emerge from a central white dice, the place an entrance atrium welcomes guests to take pleasure in a spider web-like rope set up suspended from tree trunks.
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celebrating child-like marvel, curiosity and spontaneity
‘Many conferences had been held with lecturers, representatives of sports activities golf equipment and the administration of the town of Říčany earlier than the proposal was settled. The kids themselves had been important – their play, motion, imaginative and prescient and scale. Kids’s spontaneity, disorganization, unpredictability, purity, curiosity, optimism and freedom from the bitterness of life,’ develop the staff.
Architeektura assigned all purposeful packages to the central white construction, together with amenities, workplaces and entrances. In the meantime, the person school rooms seem as colourful house-shaped volumes, rising from the oblong mould and reaching in direction of the backyard. Inside these school rooms, areas rework into play areas for hiding, studying and exploring. Formed like an Indian tee-pee, these areas let considerable mild fall from triangular home windows, bringing seen picket buildings that evoke tree branches to life. Lastly, the architects unfold the lecture rooms over two flooring.
Within the entrance atrium, a central hammock set up, like a spider net, serves as a play space accessible from all school rooms. ‘We hope it will likely be used and kids will swing and fly. The web is carried by tree trunks which have been thanked for his or her service. The atrium additionally serves as a neighborhood area for singing, appearing, exhibitions and theater,’ Pocket book structure.
The principle entrance is accessed from the road, evoking the door of a mysterious temple or a spaceship. The road-facing facade is partially designed as vertical greenery, within the hope that it’s going to thicken and unfold to someday take in the complete frontage. In the meantime, the technical infrastructure is left partially seen, permitting youngsters to see how and the place water, electrical energy and air stream.
the house-shaped blocks home the kids’s school rooms
“We needed to construct an object for kids that will not be an establishment, could be playful and permit the event of creativity and all the attractive specificities of the kid’s soul. An object that can create unconscious pictures for kids that will someday emerge in maturity to develop one thing…’ shut the studio.
