The Adaptive Classroom
The Adaptive Classroom brings more flexibility, activity space, and opportunity for physical exploration into the public Kindergarten classroom.
The aim is to serve a wide range of spatial preferences — including smaller, child-scale enclosed spaces that have been shown to improve learning outcomes for small children.
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What is Furnitecture?
“Odd as it may seem, the essential purpose of architecture and furniture boils down to the same thing: to support, contain, and render accessible the third — vertical — dimension of space”
See Examples of Microenvironments
Where Can You Find Furnitecture?
The Learning Landscape
Standard Furniture and Interactions of a Kindergarten Classroom
Reconstructing the Learning Environment
“[Individuals] should be entitled the flexibility to work lying down in a quiet nook, at a table in a bustling lunch-room, or sitting under a tree in the garden if they please”
The Scale In-Between
Each module can be raised and lowered in different arrangements to accommodate for both individual and group work, open and enclosed spaces, as well as function as ambiguous and re-arrangeable units.