Dynamo Kindergarten

The workshop will be conducted in collaboration with Dynamo Academy and will deal with the design of a new kindergarten for Dynamo Camp in the heart of the Pistoia Apennines. Thanks to the camp, every year, thousands of children with serious illnesses and disabilities have the opportunity to live a free holiday experience that can have extraordinary effects through the method of "recreational therapy." The project of a kindergarten, where able-bodied and disabled children can grow and play together, is a priority in the future development of the camp, both to support the work of operators and to accommodate younger guests. This project will be an exciting and deeply formative challenge for students, who will be able to apply the knowledge they have acquired on accessibility and inclusiveness in architecture to a space with a deeply playful connotation consistent with Dynamo's method and with that positive vision of universal and inclusive architecture underlining Universal Design.