“Because everybody loves a playground.”
Thats part of the tag line to one of my new favorite sites, Playscapes. One advantage of being a landscape architect, is the ability to design playgrounds. There are very few things in life that remind you of your childhood and keep you young at heart more than designing a playground. I do, however, prefer the term “playscape.” It implies that it is not just a structure that you are desiging, but modifying the landscape for play. The first project that i incorporated the term in, was a park design for the Gainsborough Neighborhood in Roanoke, Virginia. Here we used the undulating forms of the neighborhood around it as a metaphor for the site itself, recreating the blocks of varying heights and vistas into a playfeature.
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