Taka Tuka Land
May 13th, 2008
Check out this cool kindergarten where the children actually had a hand in designing the building directly, through a communal design strategy with the staff and children, and indirectly, by watching the children at play. What they came up with is a building that is part classroom and part playground.
The architectural highpoint is the “lemonade-island” where the children are taller than the grown-ups. It’s oblique surfaces invite every child to play and “drown” in streams of yellow lemonade. In one of the rooms the stream of lemonade literally bursts out bounds and floods into the garden. Metaphorically Pippi Longstocking’s old oak tree has been turned into an interactive façade. It has become an oblique climbing frame made of green oak wood covered by yellow membrane with plenty of spaces to hide.
Click here to read the story and see a gallery of great pics!
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