Children's House

The baby's learning story changes from year to year, because every year is an age.

In the first days after birth, his environment had better be constant, much as it was in that perfect capsule in his mother's body. It is at this stage that what Eric Erickson called the trust/mistrust stage is built. Everything that is unexpected, brutal, can produce an underlying distrust that can become ingrained in the mind for the long term. Only if a child is trusting will they also be curious to explore later. He would do well in an attic room, somewhat separated from the world below where there is traffic. A parent's maternal instinct calls for the same thing: to confine the cub to a hard-to-reach space.

Once the baby starts to walk, it explores and imitates. That's what a house with Gaudi walls is all about. The corners of rooms are too brutal a boundary, not inviting exploration. Instead, moving along a curved wall creates a kind of horizon that gradually reveals things. For its