A project to create a shared communal, playable space – a ‘village green’ – in a housing estate. Once again, we try to evoke through our designs a ‘culture of permission’ and invitation – creating the context for non-planned, informal, social interaction. This finds symbolic and practical expression in the pathway with seating running through the playable, communal space. …
The pictures speak for themselves: they show the transformation of a bleak, unloved, uncared for, flat tarmac area within council housing into a pleasant ‘village green’. The significance here is the values and commitments that inform every stage of this project.Those values and commitments include creating places where people can be ‘in sight of one another’ – reading the context for…
This scheme worked as a three way collaboration with the residents association, the local play association (PATH) and ourselves. The Design Brief we formulated and was agreed states at the outset the overarching aim. To create an attractive, playable communal space in the area around the Hut that will be inviting to children, teenagers and adults. In other words, we…