Cube Land

In the usual educational environments for children, usually a large container as an architectural space containing micro-spaces and predetermined spaces and playing space .this usually puts the architectural container on the child’s space. And in fact, how much the architect tries to diversify the biological experiences of the mentioned space, the surrounding environment remains a normal building, or if changes are formed, its changes are reduced to the use of several specific shapes.

The New Zealand kindergarten design team tries to combine play, biological, visual, and movement experiences with architectural circulation and micro-space. In fact, this time the content plays the role of container, and no structure or

building, as an architectural structure in which there is usually no variety, affects the said function of the environment. This kind of spatial experience creates a colony on the outskirts of the city and different heights, no path is interrupted and no tools are needed for the children’s physical control. Familiar spaces for the child in the combination with the Maori culture and the climatic needs of the region shape micro-spaces.

In the plan, a part has been provided to the child as an urban space, and in the entrance part, the most important excitement of the child that is waiting for the child, the view is toward the whole of the kindergarten. This view is doubled through transparency in the structure and the central courtyard and the southern and western layout.

Dedicating the side of the site to the urban space will cause social interaction and increase the quality of life.

Experience nature : Children Should have natural experience.

Express Emotion : They should express their emotions to find stability in their minds.

Stimulate five sense : childrens brain should developed through five senses stimulation.

Dividing the site into a series of grid to maintain disciplinary and non linearised movement pattern and Expand Modules in the internal Grids.

Grids are like a big game and our main idea is to combine the game and curiosity with the architecture of the designed space.

The possibility of developing modules as a class in the coming years.

Montessori is a method of education that is based on self-directed activity, hands-on learning and collaborative play. In Montessori classrooms children make creative choices in their learning, while the classroom and the highly trained teacher offer age-appropriate activities to guide the process. Children work in groups and individually to discover and explore knowledge of the world and to develop their maximum potential.

Montessori classrooms are beautifully crafted environments designed to meet the needs of children in a specific age range.

Montessori education involves free activity within a “prepared environment”, meaning an educational

Classroom Layout is in the the form of group workspace with clear walls to be visible from the outside. it aslo has dividers for use in the required conditions.

Building acts as the child’s third teacher, or an environmental steward.

Skylights in the middle of the building ,Skylights that get light from the north and south and prevents western wind.

The world of the children is separated from the worlds of adults through the color in the walls.

8:45AM

PASSION TO START

At 8 o’clock in the morning, admission to kindergarten starts with reminiscing about yesterday’s good memorizes and socializing children, which mostly happen in movement environments, vertical environments and in the form of playing.

In this part of the day, the child discovers and extracts the mind and teachers are not there yet.

11:00AM

SEEK TO FIND

Seekers with questions explore the cube under the mentorship of instructors to discuss their questions with their friends and other seekers. At this point they explore all spaces to gather more information about their questions.

4:00PM

Departure Time

At 4 o’clock, children can summarize the day’s activities together in a group environments and they also collect personal items, clean and tidy up the kindergarten.

To move within the grille net, the child sometimes move with stairs, sometimes with slopes and sometimes with ladders , and sees different views of the city, the trees of the area and the play space in the center of the area. As a result, a loop in a set of regular grille is itself a great playing for the child who needs to be education creativity in Daily life affairs. For this reason, the structure of the complex is visible and then the micro-spaces are formed, which evokes the game space for us.

– Much Annual rainfall, it rains almost every day so we must have open environments with the possibility of shelter.

– Roofed space without doors and windows.

– The humidity is high and the comfort is with the windbreak.

– The effect of wind and humidity together.

– Different yards in different heights.

– Horizontal slop  :  %13/5  =   5/5 meters

 – Vertical slope: %7/5 =  5 meters

Lead Architects:

Mojtaba Hooshangian Shirazi

Project Team:

Mahsa Pakshir

Rokhsare Shakibaei

Amjad Sadri