Children visiting the Centre Pompidou in Paris can join workshops in the recently opened education centre designed by Mathieu Lehanneur. Inspired by skate parks, the interior floors curve into the walls (as seen below), providing a safeguard of sorts for children. White boxes, which are changeable and manipulated into other forms by the kids, lay scattered across the floor freely. This is very much a hands-on interior, and the spotlights over the accessible areas (such as the boxes) emphasize this.
Glass walls are positioned in front of installation mouldings (also created by Lehanneur), transforming a what might have been the continuation of a partition wall into a highly creative outlet for kids 6-12 who are developing cognitive abilities.
Also important is a secondary area for young infants in the center of the space. This area is delineated by monochromatic and sensibly-placed colored buffers to provide a sense of childlike imagination to an otherwise bland interior. Also smart is the placement of yellow wire-mesh suspended panels from the ceiling. The juxtaposition of creativity and security is enhanced by these panels, which make light of the interior and add a sense of childlike warmth.
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