GROW Upp - By HABA

Discovery

Rooms!

DESIGN CONCEPT

Organic Structures

How the designers describe the grow.upp concept:

Children can gather lots of experiences on an excursion into the forest or

to the park. They can try things out, learn things. We asked ourselves: How

can we design a group room which is equally exciting? What do the furni-

ture, the colors, the light and the walls need to be like?

Simply imitating nature wasn’t our goal. We wanted to create its essence.

We wanted the children and teachers to feel

surrounded by this natural

order

, and to have a

sense

in the same way we feel connected with na-

ture, while on hikes and walks. We considered this in the design and selec-

tion of colors: delicate green, brown and blue, supplemented with a few

sparing accents in red and yellow. In this way the

room is similar to the

natural

and

timeless impres-

sions

given by our own familiar outdoors.

The

unusual geometry

of the furniture renects the

fact that nature is constantly surprising us. Living

shapes don’t follow the stiff, technoid aesthetic of

our functionally oriented architecture.

The tried and tested right-angled storage furniture

grow.upp

- Discovery Rooms

(with optimal space utililzation) doesn’t just stand against the wall but

rather, combined with the

angled elements

grows through creativity.

through the room, structures it and separates the room areas visually and

physically. The room remains open as these naturescape “room dividers”

are

Àlled with experiences

and have “secret” passages. The paths don’t

always take the most direct line from A to B. Grow.upp offers various op-

tions to reach a destination. This

encourages movement

around the room.

The widely distributed

explorer spaces

encourage

independent play

the children. They have the opportunity to mnd many corners and angles,

and to play throughout the room. Children can mnd

spaces for retreat

, for quiet observation or even

for sleep.

Grow.upp offers children an environment which

suits their needs and stimulates their senses in

ways that conneet with nature.