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迈克·施瓦茨

架构师提供的文本描述。儿童科学实验室是一个针对2-12岁儿童的动手科学学习中心，其前提是孩子们是好奇的。该公司的创始人不专注于化学反应或数学方程式，他们鼓励探索，让科学活过来。

Text description provided by the architects. Kids Science Labs is a hands-on science learning center for kids aged 2-12 based on the premise that kids are curious. The company's founders don't focus on a chemical reaction or mathematical equation, they encourage exploration to bring science alive.

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迈克·施瓦茨

他们想要7900秒的学习

They wanted their 7,900sf Learning & Discovery Lab (in a loft building in Chicago's South Loop) to be a place where kids could wonder HOW their world works and ask WHY---and we wanted to make architecture a protagonist in that experience.

 Floor Plan

除了直截了当的欢迎桌外，还有两种空间用于(1)独立的发现和探索-一个蜿蜒的、连锁的黑板问题墙(电视是如何工作的？)、瓦楞纸橙色容器(里面是什么？)、高高的窗户(外面是什么？)对于(2)基于(通常是喧闹的混乱)经验的交互学习，而不是解释-用可写的墙壁、软木地板、悬垂的毛毡隔板和宽开的玻璃车库门组成的实验室展览馆。

Beyond the see-through welcome desk, are two kinds of space for (1) independent discovery and exploration---a meandering, interlocking puzzle of blackboard question wall (how does TV work?), corrugated orange container (what's in there?), tall windows (what's out there?) and for (2) interactive learning based on (often boisterously messy) experience, not explanation---wood-clad laboratory pavilions with writable walls, cork floors, suspended felt acoustical baffles, and wide-opening glazed garage doors.

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迈克·施瓦茨

在拐角处，伸长的木衬加速器空间是孩子们真正可以放手的地方，他们试验自制的弹射器、可乐和曼托斯火箭。材料坚韧、耐用、自然：枫木单板胶合板、普通砖块、混凝土、玻璃、软木、油漆瓦楞纸金属、黑板，

Around the corner, the elongated, wood-lined, Accelerator Space is where kids can really let go, experimenting with with homemade catapults and Coke and Mentos rockets.  Materials are tough, durable and natural: maple veneer plywood, common brick, concrete, glass, cork, painted corrugated metal, blackboard, & cardboard mailing tubes.

Architects Woodhouse Tinucci Architects

Location Chicago, IL, United States

Category Adaptive Reuse

Area 7900.0 ft2

Project Year 2013

Photographs Mike Schwartz