13 exciting designs for playground of the future
?Surface? magazine commissioned 13 architects and designers to reimagine playscapes for 2018 and beyond Surface magazine has commissioned 13 designers and architects to reimagine the playground for 2018 and beyond informed by Isamu Noguchi?s Carrara marble ?Slide Mantra? and David Rockwell?s Imagination Playground, a portable playground that kids themselves can build from giant blue foam blocks.
The brief from editor-in-chief Spencer Bailey gave the designers room to be free with their ideas: ?Create an object for a playground of the future. It could be whatever you want it to be?as long as it?s about play and makes sense within a playground setting.?
Courtesy The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, New York / ARS
Isamu Noguchi and his ?Slide Mantra? in 1986.
The result is an array of proposals big and small, from underpass playgrounds to modular blocks to elaborate jungle gyms. Even if each project is unique, collectively they promote the idea of the multifunctional??that good, sound playground design needs to be something that?s fluid and can be experienced in many different ways, from various angles, with no one-size-fits-all model,? said Bailey. Below, a few of our favorite playscapes of the future. Head to Surface for the complete list.
Tumbleweed by SO-IL
Tumbleweed is a mobile playground that can be positioned in a variety of settings. As a ?tumbleweed,? it can roll over and transform an empty lot into a pla...
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