Modular play environments for shared interiors

Nami Blocks is a modular soft-play system for spaces where children and adults coexist:

hotels, cafés, galleries, waiting areas, cultural and educational institutions.

It is not a toy, and not a fixed play scenario.
It is a flexible spatial system that supports open-ended play, movement, and social interaction.

Children almost never use environments the way adults imagined.
Nami Blocks is designed around that reality.

Designed to belong

Many children’s spaces are still treated as separate, brightly colored corners.

Nami Blocks offers another approach: a play environment that becomes part of the architecture around it.

The system integrates into shared interiors without losing its play value.

Open-ended by design

The same modules can support different forms of interaction depending on age, context and configuration.

Children can sit, climb, build, balance, hide, negotiate and invent their own rules.

There is no single correct way to use Nami Blocks. That is the point.

Material and durability

Nami Blocks is made from recycled PUR foam and finished with a seamless polyurethane coating.

Unlike conventional stitched soft-play covers, the surface is seamless, durable and easy to clean.

Suitable for intensive institutional use.

Status

Nami Blocks is currently in development and pilot validation.

We are preparing prototype production, institutional testing, certification and commercial launch.

For pilot projects, institutional partnerships or investment conversations: hello@naminami.studio

Nami Nami Studio was founded by product designer Eduard Herrmann and architect Klára Koldová.

~ focus: experimental design bridging architecture, play and sustainability

~ based in Prague, Czech Republic; active internationally

The studio focuses on tailor-made experiential interventions and installations for children’s play. At the heart of each design lies freedom of play, creativity, and imagination. The result is a series of playful spaces and magical micro-worlds that serve as alternatives to conventional playgrounds and playrooms, which typically rely on standardized equipment and lack deeper engagement with children’s development and creativity.

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Eduard Herrmann studied product design at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague (UMPRUM). He designs products for both industrial and craft production, as well as artistic interventions and exhibition architecture. Previously, he collaborated with Matěj Coufal under the label Herrmann&Coufal (2014–2023). Since 2020, he has been pursuing a Ph.D. at UMPRUM, focusing on sustainability, low tech, and reuse in design. In the 2022/23 academic year, he co-led the Planet B module on sustainability and civilizational issues together with Klára Peloušková at the same institution.

Klára Koldová graduated from the Faculty of Architecture at the Czech Technical University in Prague (CTU) and the University of Bath in the UK. She previously worked at the architectural studio DDAANN (2016–2020) and now designs primarily interiors and renovations under her own name. Since 2021, she has been conducting doctoral research at the CTU Faculty of Architecture, focusing on places for children’s play in urban public space.