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Item Restricted Designing kindergartens : between design intention and everyday use(2020) Rosales, Geraldine; Ebert, Carola; Larsen, Sigurd; bachelor thesis in Interior Design"It is certain that children are the first building block of society's structure and helping them achieve their potential is crucial for the future. The first place where a child has social contact with others apart from his immediate family is generally kindergarten. Away from home, kindergarten becomes the place where the child spends most of their time. Now more than ever, there is a growing awareness of the importance of kindergarten, the impact it has on the child, and how the environment within must be optimized and designed with purpose and deliberateness. Alongside the quality of the educators and the educational program, the physical surroundings are then seen as the third educator. [...] [D]espite the fact that education professionals already recognize the importance that physical spaces, be they interior or exterior, have upon the development of the child, we know relatively little about the experiences and opinions of architects in combination with the educators. Designing kindergartens aims to determine how design concepts can be applied to interior spaces in such a way that they may optimize the development and learning process of the child as much as possible. [...] Keeping in mind the impact that interior design might have on the child's learning experience, and taking into account the quality of the physical infrastructure of the three kindergarten examples, I will attempt to answer the following questions: 1. How does design relate to education? 2. How can a kindergarten be designed or constructed in a way that it motivates self-initiated activities? 3. What is particular about the interior design of each of these kindergartens?"Item Restricted Developing an adaptable interior for children between 4 and 6, in kindergarten to enhance their influence on the interior design(2018) Wolf, Pia; Larsen, Sigurd; Pöğün-Zander, Yüksel; Faculty of Architecture and Design; Berlin International University of Applied Sciences"[T]he aim of this paper is the development and design of an adaptable and personalizable kindergarten interior for children between 4 and 6 that enhances the influence of children on the design of the interior. The adaptable interior will provide stimulating elements and offer the possibility to personalize and change parts of their physical surroundings. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to answer the following questions: 1. How can children actively influence interior spaces in kindergarten? 2. How does the interior stimulate and limit the influence of the children? 3. How can adaptability and personalizability of the interior be enhanced to enhance the influence of children on their environment?"Item Restricted Interior design requirements for a better learning experience for children : how interior design informs about the floating 'Hort' in a boat as an alternative to traditional 'Horts', pertaining to Montessori teaching?(2020) Bhatia, Archit; Larsen, Sigurd; Pöğün-Zander, Yüksel; master's thesis in Interior Design"Primary education is a crucial stage for children in terms of mental, physical, and social development. In the present-day scenario, it is ubiquitous to have both parents working, and their children go to the Hort after school instead of going to their respective homes. Therefore, it is essential to provide them with an adequate learning environment and spatial interior experience as they spend most of the time in these settings. The study examines the association of the Montessori method, a child-centered educational system, within interior spaces. It provides the basis for designers to deduce ideas of an active environment for students in an early stage of learning. The researcher proposes to use the existing studies and data, which are consequently used to provide a proper design for a Hort. These studies are supportive of the daily activities of the users of this facility. Since the Hort facility plays such an essential role in the early stage of a kid's life, Berlin is facing the significant issue of inadequate numbers of Horts, after-school centers for the children, raises a concern. Thus, through this paper, the researcher proposes an alternate solution to this issue by utilizing the ferry boats on the abundant water bodies as an alternative to the traditional Horts all around the city. The presence of water not only influences the design, but also acts as an agent to help in a child's intellectual and physical growth. Keywords: Spatial interior experience, Learning environment, Hort, Montessori method, Water."Item Restricted The effect of multisensory environments in autism centers through design(2020) Al-Janabi, Rawan; Pöğün-Zander, Yüksel; Starck, Adrian von; bachelor thesis in Interior Design"This study attempts to describe and to define the behavioural impact of autistic children on spatial sequencing and the appropriate building materials. The study makes an effort to understand the psychology of children with autism and attempts to provide an appropriate environment where they can improve the abilities of children with disabilities and provide an environment of unwinding, relaxation, and enjoyment. In this study, I aim to investigate how a multisensory environment affects the autistic children's behavior, and how it can provide enough stimulation to be integrated into an autism center."