Mateusz Mioduszewski, Sonia Łuszczyńska and Martyna Pluczyk from the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice designed the interior of a community center for children from Silesia. Their colorful design won the Lech Fabric competition.
The theme of the competition was to create an unusual and friendly space for children who come from socially or socially disadvantaged families and use a community center in Katowice. The day care center is a facility that provides day care for children and young people between the ages of 7 and 18. The recipients of the space are also, of course, the day care center's employees, teachers and therapists. The competition task was to design the space of a room located in the farthest and darkest place in the center.
The common room is a multifunctional space
© Mateusz Mioduszewski, Sonia Łuszczyńska, Martyna Pluczyk
multifunctional space
The needs analysis that the authors conducted showed that the users of the room need a multifunctional space - for playing, calming, resting, but also for studying and meeting with therapists. The limited space and the need to quickly change its functionality had to go hand in hand with the friendly character of the room. To achieve this effect, the designers arranged the space using fabrics and wood as the main materials.
On the panels, for example, you can draw
© Mateusz Mioduszewski, Sonia Łuszczyńska, Martyna Pluczyk
The use of wooden wall panels with cutouts created a place to organize books, games, flowers and cushions. The room' s color scheme was chosen with psychological significance in mind. The color blue positively influences creativity, allows for tranquility and blends well with wood.
colorful cushions
It is the cushions that have become one of the main elements, helping to create a comfortable space for more children. To provide conditions for studying, an easily foldable desk appeared in the room. The use of sliding panels, which additionally cover an unused door on one of the walls, created additional space for study and play. The panels act as a writing and pin board. The development of the ceiling with fabric panels in combination with wood built-ins was aimed at soundproofing and improving the acoustics of the room.
The cushions have two sides: obverse with an illustration and reverse with a description
© Mateusz Mioduszewski, Sonia Łuszczyńska, Martyna Pluczyk
Silesia motif on the fabrics
The last wall, in turn, featured panels upholstered with fabric printed in a simplified way visualizing the Silesian area. It was the Silesian motif that became the narrative of the entire room. Showing interesting places of theregion on the wall and on the cushions is meant to bring theregion's history closer and influence the building of the wards' regional identity, stimulating their imagination. As for the cushions themselves, they have been sewn in such a way that the surface on one side illustrates a specific place of the region, while the other carries information about it.
See also ASHka's ceramic design by Mateusz Mioduszewski.
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illustrations courtesy of Mateusz Mioduszewski,
Sonia Luszczynska and Martyna Pluczyk
