Brightly colored volumes and angular kinds characterise this nursery within the Czech Republic, which was designed by Czech studio Architektura to echo childhood playfulness.
Situated in Říčany, a city within the Prague-East District, the Větrník Kindergarten includes a fitness center, backyard, school rooms and a playground, unfold throughout colored blocks that department out from a central white construction.
Its design is knowledgeable by childhood, with an association that goals to evoke playfulness and spontaneity, and kinds that emulate dens and tents.
“The jagged ground plan attracts upon the absence of geometry within the kid’s thoughts, a unique order, playfulness, and spontaneity,” Architektura director David Kraus advised Dezeen.
Every of Větrník Kindergarten’s brightly colored blocks holds a classroom, whereas the remainder of its services are contained inside the principle white dice.
“The youngsters themselves had been important – their video games, motion, imaginative and prescient, and scale,” added Kraus. “Youngsters’s spontaneity, disorganisation, unpredictability, purity, curiosity, and optimism impacted the design.”
Větrník Kindergarten’s street-facing facade has an entrance that’s meant to resemble a spaceship, alongside a dwelling wall that Architektura hopes will develop and thicken to cowl the complete elevation.
By means of the doorway, guests and college students are welcomed by an atrium within the white central construction. Places of work and different sensible services are additionally included on this central block.
A big web for play spans the doorway atrium, supported by tree trunks. The world beneath this serves as a neighborhood house that may accommodate music, theatre, and exhibitions.
Branching out from the atrium are the person school rooms, that are linked to the backyard and topped with square-shaped skylights.
Větrník Kindergarten’s school rooms additionally function triangular home windows, a few of that are bordered by colored frames. Angled columns and brightly colored flooring permit the playful design of the constructing to proceed inside.
Exterior, a playground with climbing frames and different tools is designed to imitate an amusement park. Whereas it’s at present beneath building, the studio hopes it can develop into a nature-filled house that may encourage imaginative play.
“The hassle was to design a dwelling space, filled with leisure sights, climbing frames, recreation components, a sort of panorama of youngsters’s fantasy, possibly even an amusement park,” mentioned Kraus.
“We needed to construct an object for youngsters that isn’t an establishment, it’s playful and can allow the event of creativity.”
Different nurseries just lately featured on Dezeen embrace a nursery and forest college produced from pure supplies and a Paris nursery produced from adobe.
The images is by Filip Šlapal.
