After the site change, I didn’t feel the need to be in an enclosed space anymore, like the one the Cocoon generates in first place. I preferred to do some kind of structure that can interact with the preexisting buildings, but still flexible enough in order to be positioned and attached in any other site. I took the “chewing gum” as a source of inspiration for it, as well as the examples of “cute things” posted o Thursday. The chewing gum is a element that all ages feel identified with. And it’s flexibility and stickiness are very playful characteristics that I consider appropriate to be included in a playground structure. The playground is composed by two levels. The ground level gives the possibility to play with the “balloons” in the floor, which will be made of a reflecting material, like a latex or thin glossy plastic, in order to reflect the upper level. I want to incorporate different colors and even smells, like when you have a bunch of gums and you try to figure out which one is your favorite. You can jump from one to other or just sit over them. The visitors can play with some balls, for the moment there are just balls, that hang from the ceiling. In addition they can play in the swing sector. I want to make them feel attracted to the upper level, with the help of some colorful toys that can be seen from the ground. The visitors can reach them by climbing the net in the center of the site, which is easily found by the red “tongue” as a vertical element which can also help them to go up. In the second level you can play with toys or just have a more exciting perspective. The way to go down is by slides made of the same fabric as the chewing gum net. I want to make a very soft ad safety ground to play in, and the materials responds to that characteristic. Even if this result is very different from my first attempts, I am still working on the mesh and the moire effects as well. The visitors have a very close and important relation with the esthetic of the structure. They are the ones who give life and dynamisms to the net generating different pressures when they walk over it. I will fix the overlap of the two nets and try some other and simplier pattern in order to get the moire effect better.
as you are working alone please try to reduce the different elements.
ReplyDeleteRemember: not difference but DIFFFERENTIATION
not adding but agglomerate
so although at the moment it is good to try different things and add them onto the site to test them also evaluate and analyze your own work for its potentials!
Then try to be more rigorous with the successful elements and imagine how you would need to alter/transform/change/refine them so they can do additional things for the playground.
I think there are a lot of interesting elements already on your playground. I like the big chewy elements that you are using to support the net and how they are attached to the building on the right. Here you're doing exactly the right thing: on one side it is a supporting system on the other side you are using them as slides.
I also like the little ball-like spiky elements that are hanging from the nets but the connection to the net has to be better designed. the same is with the swing elements.
also be careful how you arrange this elements - the right amount will make them precious and interesting or ubiquitous and boring that is up to you
I do not think that your net as well as the ground should cover the whole playground.
I also have the feeling that net and ground should be from the same family, that is allthough I like the playfulness of the ground it should be related through its pattern to the net. So keep the bumpiness change the pattern
the net itself should also create (only one )other situations then just a roof (just one - not too much)
when the ground and the roof nets are a family you can start to weave them so they can form one pocket (just one) on a specific point and/or you can weave them and the ground becomes the roof and the roof the ground...
keep up the good work