Skogskullens förskola; the reggio Emilia approach and the built environment
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Examensarbete för masterexamen
Master's Thesis
Master's Thesis
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Many children spend their preschool years in temporary barracks
with uninspiring architecture and insufficient outdoor
spaces. This thesis establishes that as a problem and aims to
contribute a hopeful addition to the current preschool discourse
by taking knowledge from Reggio Emilia pedagogics
and its approach to the built environment. The proposal strives
to create inspiring educational architecture with joyful and elegant
elements.
The project proposal is a wooden preschool, located in Tynnered,
southern Gothenburg. It fits eight departments, or approximately
150 children. The project leans on the Reggio Emilia ideas
surrounding natural materials and trusting children
with maintaining their space. Methods used to develop the
project are research for design through literature studies, site
visits, and the studying of reference objects. Research has also
been conducted through the iterative design process, using
models and drawings. The project has grown out of the Reggio
Emilia pedagogical philosophy and landed in the cultural
context of the site. Conclusions drawn from this project have
been surrounding the connections between architecture and
pedagogics, and how they can coexist and cooperate without
being too restrictive. A problem the thesis has tried to overcome
was the balance between an economically defensible
project while still creating valuable architecture. AMunicipal
guidelines have been considered alongside the Reggio Emilia
philosophy, and in situations where they contradict each other,
the Reggio Emilia philosophy has been allowed to challenge
the municipal guidelines in order to develop the current preschool
architectural discourse.
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Children, Reggio Emilia, Preschool architecture, Wood buildings