Budding architects at Colston's Primary School in Bristol design olympic stadia

Elke and Izaak from DHVA facilitated an architectural model making workshop for the year 3 children of Colston's Primary School in Cotham, Bristol. Izaak explained at an initial lecture the history of stadia and how function influences their design, and showed the children exciting examples of interesting stadia from around the world to fire their imaginations. On day one of the workshop the children prepared their base plates, sports fields and seating for football, cycling, athletics and aquatics stadia. On day two the children created fantastic architectural structures with card, bubble wrap, foam, tensile fabric and clear plastic. On day three the children coloured and decorated the models. Various items, especially model trees, we're kindly donated by the professional model-making workshop Amalgam Models in Bristol. The children were very enthusastic about the project and created some unique, quirky, and quite professional models, and learned about architecture, scale and how "form follows function".