4+

The panels can be assembled in various patterns to suit individual teaching requirements.

Project Details

• Project Name: 4+
• End User: Children
• Project Type: Product Design
• Principal Designer: Alessandra Giannini
• Design Team: Antonio Vargas
• Date of completion of project: April 2007
• Usage environment: Schools
• Dimensions: modules 80x80 cm
• Prototype cost: 500 Euros

The game is equipped with six interactive panels which deal with the perception of light and color.

The Product

4+ is a game for children aged 0-5 years and is made of a series of modular panels which can be assembled (from a minimum of 4 elements upwards) to create different types of structures. The panels work with the perception of light and colors in children between 0 and 3 years. The assembly pattern may be linear, cubical or in the form of a small in accordance with the teaching requirements.

The panels arranged in a small house like assembly pattern.

There are six interactive game panels which can also be assembled with plain panels to create bigger structures such as labyrinths. The first panel has a periscope, the second a stenoscope, the third a Newton wheel, the fourth peeking holes of different shapes, the fifth a box for Chinese shadows and the sixth a game of transparent colored squares that can be mixed together. Elements have simple shapes and brilliant colors, and are realized in natural materials, such as wood.

Credits

• Text: Courtesy of the architect
• Photographs: Courtesy of the architect
• Compiled and edited by Manish Mehta