So we have the island of ‘forever-land,’ the ocean, the forest, the desert, the Arctic, the canyon, constellations, stairs and steps, mazes and slides, in which to imagine all kinds of adventures in the discovery of unknown worlds, in a completely independent, free way. After all, to think about a kindergarten as a mere functional container would have been a sterile notion indeed. Isn’t this one of the first dwelling-houses described by Freud? A substitute for the mother’s womb, “that first lodging for which man in all likelihood still longs, in which he was safe and felt at ease” (Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents, 1929).
Project Vudafieri Saverino Partners - design team Claudio Saverino, Tiziano Vudafieri, Anna Petrara, Stefano Piontini, Ana Arango, Iris Cai, Luke Lin