Forest grain
Kindergarden

Sector

Educational

Project

320 m2

Location

Puerto Varas, Chile

Year

2015

Design Team

Fernando Narea - Fabian Leiva

Renders

Fernando Narea

The challenge of the project was to conceptualize wooden toys into an architectural project of a kindergarden.

Wooden toys, due to the nature of their material, have simple shapes that invite the child’s imagination to interact more actively. This interrelation, understood as an “imaginative malleability” is transferred to the architectural project through “spatial malleability”, allowing the child to influence their living space through the building.

The project consists of 3 levels that are oriented to the 3 stages of childhood. The ground level, aimed to preschool age , has its main purpose to encourage play, movement and interaction with the outside, so its mobile panels open the classroom to the outside.

The second level, oriented to the toddler, invites the children to interact with an environment which is modified to generate various spatial situations that foster creativity and discovery.

The third level is oriented to infants, its main purpose is to regulate thermal comfort and sunlight to this delicate stage of human development.