Art Lessons - DUBAI SKYSCRAPERS - video + pdf

Episode: “Dubai Skyscraper” A Visionary City Tower
 
This episode invites children into a world of scale, imagination, and bold architectural thinking. It is a creative journey into space, rhythm, and form, where a building becomes more than a structure, and design becomes an experience.
In this lesson, children explore skyscrapers not as objects to copy, but as personal visions shaped by imagination, movement, and spatial thinking. Inspired by the futuristic skyline of Dubai, they discover new ways of working with height, balance, repetition, and contrast. Each tower becomes a unique story, built from ideas, emotions, and creative decisions.
This is an invitation to think big, let go of limitations, and create freely.
 
What’s included in this episode?
This is not just an idea.
It is a complete, guided creative process.
 
You will receive:
• A full video episode showing the entire process step by step, from the first sketch to the final architectural form
• A guided walkthrough, where we observe children’s artworks together and talk about what makes them expressive, bold, and unique
• A printable PDF with a clear lesson structure
• A materials list (simple, accessible, and classroom-friendly)
• Step-by-step instructions that help you lead the project smoothly, even if you are not an architecture or design specialist
 
Everything is designed to support you, so you can focus on what truly matters: the children’s creative experience.
 
Age Group
6–12 years
(with the possibility to simplify for younger children)
 
Duration
90 minutes
(or 2 × 45 minutes)
The finishing of the artworks depends on the teacher’s possibilities and the depth of exploration you want to achieve. If you care about refined details and a more complex final result, we recommend spreading this project over several lessons.
In our studio, these artworks are usually created over 4 sessions of 1.5 hours each.
 
How to begin?
Before creating the final artwork, children start with simple sketches and playful structural experiments. This becomes a gentle introduction to architectural thinking, without pressure, without technical rules, and without fear of mistakes.
They explore the idea of a tower, the relationship between base and height, stability and movement, repetition and variation. The sketch is not meant to be perfect. It is a space for learning, testing, and imagining.
When the base idea is ready, the real adventure begins: building their own skyscrapers.
 
Your visionary tower
In this lesson, a skyscraper is not just a building.
It is built in layers of ideas, shapes, and decisions.
Children experiment with vertical lines, stacked forms, windows, rhythms, and unexpected details. They explore light and shadow, contrast, balance, and scale. They discover how a form can feel calm, dynamic, mysterious, playful, or powerful.
Later, collage elements, drawn details, and graphic accents appear — adding new meanings, stories, and visual surprises. Finally, markers and lines bring everything together, emphasizing structure, rhythm, and character.
Drawing meets construction.
Form meets imagination.
Structure meets play.
Control meets freedom.
Every skyscraper becomes a personal, expressive composition.
This is a fusion of vision and structure, intuition and intention.
 
Why do we do this?
Creating a visionary skyscraper helps children (and adults):
• develop spatial imagination
• explore scale, height, and structure
• understand rhythm and repetition
• build confidence in their own ideas
• experiment without fear
• think in three dimensions
• combine different techniques
• discover their own creative voice
 
This lesson shows that architecture does not need to be realistic to feel real.
Because sometimes the most powerful cities
are not the ones that already exist,
but the ones we dare to imagine.