乐高不仅是玩具的时候

An immersive Lego experience helps children shape their creative confidence

身临其境的乐高体验有助于孩子们塑造他们的创作信心

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LONDON – Who better to pair up for a collaboration than French designer Camille Walala and toy brand Lego? Both known for exploding spaces with colour, geometry and fun in design and in play, Walala and Lego partnered to create House of Dots, a five-room interactive house. Built with the help of 180 children and a group of adult fans of the iconic Danish blocks, the temporary London installation teases Lego Dots, a new arts-and-crafts, 2D-tile play-building concept.

伦敦，Walala和Lego都以在设计和游戏中使用色彩、几何图形和乐趣的爆炸空间而闻名，他们合作创建了“点屋”(House of Dots)，一个有五个房间的互动房屋。在180名儿童和一群Denmark标志性积木的成年粉丝的帮助下，London临时搭建的乐高积木点，是一种新的艺术和手工艺，2d瓷砖的游戏建造概念。

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Open at Coal Drops Yard in Kings Cross, House of Dots is the result of internal research completed by Lego – through a quantitative study conducted with 10,800 parents and 7,200 children across the US, China and Germany, the company’s designers found that ‘children are increasingly looking to shape their creative confidence through more personalized forms of play,’ according to a spokesperson. The end-product, informed through a total of 21,000 play observations, seeks to give kids the option to explore freely and express themselves through their own designs.

开放在Kings Cross煤炭堆的院子里，House of Dots是内部研究结果完成的乐高——通过定量研究与在美国、中国和德国的10800名父母和7200名儿童。设计师们发现,“孩子们越来越希望通过玩更个性化的形式塑造创新的信心,“据发言人。最终产品的设计完成是通过21000个游戏观察来的，试图给孩子们自由探索和通过他们自己的设计表达自己的选择。

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The reality-suspending environment has a living room, kitchen, bedroom, bathroom and two unconventional residential additions – a disco and nearly 2.5-m slide from which to exit the experience from. Spread over eight shipping containers, every interior element is a customized hybrid of Walala’s distinctive style and the visual language of Lego Dots. Two million Lego tiles dot the installation, amounting to 150 sq-m of structure built with the product.

现实悬念的环境中有客厅、厨房、卧室、浴室和两个非常规的住宅附加物——一个迪斯科舞厅和近2.5米的滑梯，从滑梯上可以灵活体验。分布在八个集装箱里面，每一个内部元素是一个定制的混合Walala的独特风格和视觉语言的乐高点。200万块乐高瓷砖点缀在整个装置中，共计150平方米的结构是用乐高产品建造的。

Producing the installation was no small feat, taking 800 man-hours to fully ‘dot’. ‘It was a huge and ambitious project to deliver in a very tight time frame – and unlike anything we’ve done before,’ says Walala. ‘Something like House of Dots would normally take us a year; in this case, we had about three months. I loved having the freedom to play, to let my imagination run free and create a house of fantasies.’ Surely young tykes that experience the space will feel inspired to do the same.

制作这个装置是一个不小的壮举，需要800个工时才能完成。Walala说:“这是一个在很短的时间内完成的巨大而雄心勃勃的项目，与我们以前做过的任何事情都不一样。”“像《House of Dots》这样的项目通常要花一年的时间;在这种情况下，我们设计周期只有三个月的时间。我喜欢自由地玩耍，让我的想象力自由地驰骋，创造一个充满幻想的家。“毫无疑问，体验过这个空间的年轻人也会受到启发，去做同样的事情。