Playing architecture / A prototype of a coloured primary school

Primary schools play a key role for the educational and emotional growth of the children through playing. Nowadays, educational systems tend often to complicate formative procedures by piling activities over activities with not so encouraging results, trying to help children grow prematurely, in the hope to boost human intelligence beforehand by fostering competition as a value for society's growth. More often than not, the result is that the act itself of playing is no longer a chance to discover the surrounding world and to gain further consciousness of things by direct experience, because it is accounted as an activity for “diversion” and escape. This dynamics lead children to be treated as miniatures of adults and their daily lives to be shaped like imitations of those of grown-ups, at the risk of producing work stress and fostering education ineffectiveness. The key ideas in the here presented project are conceived to enable children to live, experience and shape their own world and to encourage them to gain knowledge by first-hand experience.