We have looked at beautiful designs of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Stained glass windows and learned about the process of making the stained…
Workshop about building elements: columns, beams, trusses and cantilevers… We have mixed construction skills with physics. Using simple materials children created…
It was a challenge of turning flat nets into 3D cubes and even more complex cuboctahedrons. We started with constructing cubes using…
Mosaics, what are they? How can we create them? Kids have looked at examples of mosaics, from ancient Greece, Rome,…
Mosaics, what are they? How can we create them? Kids have looked at examples of mosaics, from ancient Greece, Rome,…
Mosaics, what are they? How can we create them? Kids have looked at examples of mosaics, from ancient Greece, Rome,…
Great exercise in counting, geometry and spatial imagination. Requiring a bit of patience and perseverance too. Children have turned square…
I was introducing children to the charismatic architecture of Dame Zaha Hadid. An icon of neo-futurism, with a formidable personality, Hadid…
Drawing 3D typography can be tricky. Children have drawn block letters using one point perspective to achieve 3 dimensional effect. Moving…
Origami is a great way of discovering how to turn flat squares of paper into 3D objects. Starting with a…
An exciting workshop, promoting green architecture. We have looked at several projects around the world, where plants have been used to make…
We have taken a challenge of creating books with a physical depth. Children have created some interesting examples of 3…
We recycled old magazine pages. Rolling sheets to paper into tubes children recycled them into robust building material. With the tubes…
Children have examined the concept of shadows. Trying different forms and shapes kids discovered the relation between object forms and…
We were exploring the concept of map making, scale, symbols and graphics we looked at several examples of maps of…
We have looked at and tested many optical puzzles and discovered that our eyes play trick on us more…
The workshop was filled with debate about Gehry’s most famous buildings and furniture, and children tried to design buildings even more…
As days get shorter and shorter we had a look and heated discussion about the concept of shadows. What makes…
As days get shorter and shorter we had a look and heated discussion about the concept of shadows. What makes…
DFA challenging urban planning exercise; We have created an amazing 3 dimensional paper city with Skyscrapers, Playground, Towers , trees…