Horizon

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Interior Experience – Cultural. Education. Heritage. Temporary. Experimental

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Kosovo

Company Name

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COMPANY COUNTRY:

Kosovo

ARCHITECTURAL CREDITS

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Project Team
Adelina Tahiri Nela, Valdete Pacolli, Genta Burri
CLIENT OR OWNER NAME:

Horizon

Project Name:
Horizon
Project Country:

Kosovo

Project City:
Pristina
Project Category:
Cultural. Education. Heritage. Temporary. Experimental
Project Area:
720 sqm
Completion Date:
2025-10-01
Project overview

Horizon Kids Prishtina transforms an existing interior into a small world waiting to be discovered. Designed for children aged 0–6, a 'mystic path' unfolds into landscapes of Water, Space, Adventure, Art and Earth. Classrooms become territories for curiosity rather than containers for teaching: tactile, playful and scaled to the child, where movement becomes exploration and architecture quietly participates in learning.

Project history
Horizon Kids is the second chapter of an ongoing collaboration, following the success of the first Horizon Center, recognized with several national and international awards. Rather than repeating a proven formula, the new project became an opportunity to evolve it. It began with a question: can a classroom awaken curiosity before a lesson even begins? The existing interior was imagined as a small landscape of discovery. A “mystic path” became its spine, leading children through worlds of Water, Space, Adventure, Art and Earth, each shaped around a different stage of development. Along this journey, abstract silhouettes woven into the walls reinterpret important elements of the city’s architectural heritage alongside motifs drawn from local tradition, connecting imagination with memory and place in a very subtle way. Through child-scaled furniture, sensory materials, interactive surfaces, light and color, ordinary rooms became territories for exploration