Providing possibilities was Lekker Architect’s guiding principle in their design of Kindle Garden, Singapore’s first inclusive preschool. Lekker believes that a modular environment gives occupants a sense of ownership and agency, “When you feel more agency, you feel less threatened – like you’re more in control and you can make decisions.” The preschool has a variety of rooms, ways to sit in a single room, and ways to move through a room.

The process of humanising medical equipment was about imagining moments of comfort and excitement, “We were thinking back toward emotive spaces from our own childhoods and the broader society, trying to capture certain kinds of mythic or rich memory imagery. It’s very powerful when abstract form taps into stories that we already have, like making a tent.”