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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
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(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
by
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.