kubhus
Brand Name:Eduardo Pacheco
Design Company Name:Eduardo Pacheco
Nationality / Region:Chile
Entry ID:2021-06-3012484
Entry Category:Product_Group
Categories:Home Life
Introduction
Analog playing still excites children – even adults – of all ages. Spacial imagination, joyful development of precise motor skills and creativity by imagining adventures and overcome “risks” on top, below, climbing and jumping from kubhus ….. or just to retreat in silence inside the castle, house, island or fort to dive into her/his own mental universe, are values that this building set is incredibly good for.
kubhus is a highly precise system of modular elements with various functions, like climbing, ladder, bridge, platforms, etc. which allow endless assembly variations and due to this outstanding caracteristic can be build almost flat and secure for small children or high and demanding to offer a defying challenge for bigger kids. Depending on the amount of elements you have, you can start with a small house or go really big with a small castle and various levels. There is no limitation in extensión, just the parts you have and your imagination.
Kids are amazingly fast in understanding how the assembling system works, it takes them seconds, but they still have to be guided by an adult with one building instruction of multiple we are continuously collecting. Even at this stage it is possible to offer three levels of “process”-difficulty according to age, by guiding the smaller ones or letting them try with a scaled 1:5 model, on a further more demanding level with instructions at hand or finally without any external help, just analizing and projecting what can be possibly done with available parts.
All started with the desire of my daughter to have her own real scale dollhouse. First, second and third priority while developing kubhus was to offer a natural, nonplastic toy ! To that I added senses and skills I wanted her to discover, improve in a playful way. Another requirement had to be flexibility but structural strength. Finally, toolless handling was a must and all parts had to be light, so even a small child could take all parts, with the exception of the few heavier “platforms”. The bigger aim was to involve the kid in the whole creative building process, not just leave it as a parent task.
We have been all challenged with a new reality during this pandemic. More or less passive consumption of a predefined virtual world, where imagination is not necessarily needed and where we right now, due to this situation, can experience “real time” how too many hours a day all sort of screens affect our most loved ones, our kids, makes kubhus an invaluable indoor and outdoor experience. It can offer a little more balance in our kids dailly life and ensure a more multidimensional growing with more and other tools and strengths.