We were asked to participate for the annual exhibition of the Union of Estonian Architects, entitled “Playing people. 8 visions of kindergarten architecture“. Our vision was represented as a game playing around the possible scenario of a day.
Vision
Children are so inventive and smart. They know where and how to play. Why not kindergarten chooses own place and possibility? Why not use whole city as well as outside of the city for playing?
Although the world is full of unique spaces, present kindergartens are fixed at one location and territory. They can move around between different rooms and people. Children shall experience diversity.
Estonian cities are so compact that buses enable fast and comfortable ride between places and nature. For example in forests there are full of “hyper-sonic sound“ which people can hear not through ears but through bodies. A Japanese musician-scientist Tsutomu Ohashi explains this sound is one of the reason why we feel peaceful in forests. It activates our brains.
Nomadic kindergarten is a bus or a mobile playroom. The bus comes to children’s home or a pick-up points, so that the parents do not need to their kids to the kindergarten any more. Afterwards the bus drives to parks, cafés, museums, libraries, playgrounds, forests or wherever according to wish of children or caretakers.
This turns whole world a kindergarten!
Location
Tallinn, Estonia
Year
2014
Status
Completed
Size
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Client
Union of Estonian Architects annual exhibition, “Playing people. 8 visions of kindergarten architecture“
Design team
Hanno Grossschmidt, Mark Grimitliht, Tomomi Hayashi
