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.

2nd Position in Architectural Design
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.

The project attempts to translate the playfulness, kinetic nature and movements of the diorama into Architecture.

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 .