SOLITUDE

The kindergarten is situated in Lone, Bergen. The new kindergarten is adjunct to the existing old Lone School. I used knowledge from neuroscience to get a deeper understanding of how we humans interact with our environment and how it affects us. For example, how do children orient and navigate? Surveys show that kindergarteners have a high cortisol level, which indicates that the children feel stressed. Stress does affect our capability to learn. Prolonged stress will affect the development of the brain. How can we make a kindergarten that is destressing and enhancing the child’s trust and capability to learn? In Norwegian kindergartens, the curriculum is teached through play. The architecture should be a driving force and facilitate learning, - and this through play.