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Architecture + Design
|July 2017
<p>There is a growing awareness among societies and culture for pre-schools to be diverse and provide learning environments through the built form.</p>
As learning spaces re-focus on team-based, interdisciplinary learning, they are moving away from standardised, onesize-fits-all approach to teaching. Instead, it is becoming a norm that students learn in a variety of ways, and the differences be supported. Students often learn better by doing it themselves, so teachers are there to facilitate, not just to instruct. Here, the built tetrisized environment becomes an enabler and a catalyst to nurture the young minds of pre-school students.
Montessori education is an interactive model of learning that emphasises on independence, freedom within limits and respect for a child’s natural, physical and social development. The architects have proposed a method to know children and respect their development. Thinking of the space in this direction suggests a prepared environment for the child in which there should be elements that allow direct knowledge.
The objects should not be many, but just the necessary quantity for learning. The elements and their forms must be simple, and the space easy to clean, without elements that stand in the way of the environment – in such a way, several activities must be able to be carried out simultaneously.

An old dilapidated residential structure has been carefully transforme into a pre-school where the colourful tetrisized facade ideology along with open learning environment enables children to in
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