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Play x Home
Home in a Kindergarten, in a Home
Architectural Design Studio
Studio 2
The project is a house designed for a kindergarten teacher who runs a small pre-school for 4-5 year olds in her own house. It imagines her home as a playful assemblage with shifting levels and spaces designed ergonomically for the kids. Sitting on a small footprint of 3m x 7.5m, the house embraces the congestion playfully in a small box. Each element designed in the house is mindful of its usage, be it the main fenestration of the house controlled by the kids or the circular library for the teacher. The house celebrates the joy of a kindergarten with the warmth of a home in a playful arrangement.
Mumbai, India
2017
Mentors - Nemish Shah
Joseph Cornell Box
The box is as assemblage of objects found at the teachers home to create an metaphorical diorama inside the frame of a box. It becomes a windows that peeps into the teachers imaginations and desires of what the house could become. All the objects become a moving part of the assembly creating a whole, manifesting and encapsulating the larger idea of the house within a box.
JC Box Play x Home
Home
Kindergarten
Living
Facade system mock up model
The house uses a playful Kinetic Facade on the south face built up of thin slate that is operated by the kids using an apparatus .
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