WED GE FOREST
CHILDCARE CENTER WITH GREEN PLAYSCAPES CHILDCARE CENTER & GALLERY | Stamford, USA Critic: Miroslava Brooks Group Work: Tingdong Xiong. spring 2021
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n a vast grassland, kids will be carefree to play and healthy to grow in an architecture that invites the nature to design the interior. Challenged by a myriad of socioeconomic, technological and physical constraints, children today are engaged in radically different modes of education, play, and ways of experiencing life. Play is an itegral part of the urban fabric. The open function of kid’s play equipment mean to stimulate imagination, tapping into children’s ability to transform and invent new uses for common objects. Natural and artificial playscapes are organically connected in the Wedge Forest to proposes a playful place with wedge landscapes germinating from the interstitial places between cluster modules inspired by Isamu Noguchi. The wedges tightly connect the playrooms to the vast grassland contexts and branch out a landscape system which keeps over 90% of the existing trees. A forest with diverse plants growing on the wedges reinterpret an assemblage of soft and hard natural landscape for kids to play, wander, and learn.
