Physical architecture
A wooden cube... |
The other thing i like about it is that it's very informal and abstract. There is no sign telling you about how it should be used. Instead it's up to the inhabitant to define it and redefine it. It becomes what you want it to be. A bed. A hangout space. A fortress. or a hide away. I think this informality makes it very playful. It's not the image of a fortress itself that makes children play war games. I think that it's more about the relations between different spaces.
Children playing in the structure. |
Right now I work on a housing project in school. The concept is to make very playful homes for families with children. The biggest risk is that it becomes a house full of images. Images of castles and barbie homes. I think this kind of formality would both affect the playing negatively but also be a nightmare of kitsch. Instead i have to do like Sou. I have to encourage playing by the physical qualities of space itself rather than of the image.
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