The child and architecture : «Draw me the house/home»

Resumen

The child as much as the adult has a few rights upon the city but we have to admit, unfortunately, that he/she is here just to live within this area built by and for the adults. The adult seems to have priority and is privileged when it comes to be part of the city while the child is ignored except for those school places and some rare outdoor spaces. Though some efforts are being made as to the setting up of these kinds of areas, still no consideration is given to anything else. The child with its own characteristics lives in the path of adults, awaiting the time to be in turn an adult himself/ herself childhood is the period when adults shape their physical and psychological personalities: this is why this period is so important to human being. Why then such a careless approach in taking it into consideration when dealing with the environment made more to suit the adult and ignore the child. It is true that it is a period which will finally catch up with the adult’s period, but they will in turn get old, does that mean we should ignore them? The aim of this work is to examine the child and his/her relationship with the main element of the city: the house. We have then chosen to study children’s drawings to be able to draw a lesson from what he/she is going to express without being obliged to hold forth about it.