pure play: how open-ended spaces spark interaction and imagination

JULIA JAMROZIKAssistant ProfessorSchool of Architecture and Planning Department of Architecture SUNY-BUFFALO

PartnerBACKOFFICE

ÉLISE CORMIER PLA, CPSI

PrincipalSMART LANDSCAPES

Adjunct Faculty School of Architecture, Planning, and Landscape Architecture AUBURN UNIVERSITY

PURE PLAY

how open-ended spaces spark interaction and imagination

2016 Park Pride Conference

PURE PLAY



Celebrating the open-endedin design for play

JULIA JAMROZIK

“An aluminium elephant is not real, since an elephant is meant to move, and as an object in the street it is unnatural. A child can make anything out of a simple form. If a play apparatus represents an animal from the start, the form dictates its construction so much that it puts an end to pure play.”

Aldo van Eyck, architect and creator of 700 playgrounds in Amsterdam

Aldo van Eyck, Amsterdam Playgrounds, 1961

Aldo van Eyck, Sandpits and Climbing frames. 1960.

Aldo van Eyck, Amsterdam Playground.

Aldo van Eyck, Amsterdam Playground. Before and After.

Aldo van Eyck, Amsterdam Playground.

Robert Mosses era playground

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Illustrative Material

Robert Mosses era playground in Central Park, NY

Isamu Noguchi. Model for Play Mountain. 1933.

Isamu Noguchi. Model for Contoured Playground. 1941.

Isamu Noguchi, United Nations Playground, 1952 (unbuilt).

Isamu Noguchi and Louis I. Kahn. Detail of model for the Adele Rosenwald Levy Memorial Playground. 1961–1962.

Isamu Noguchi. Models for Playground Equipment for Ala Moana Park. 1939.

Isamu Noguchi. Piedmont Park playspace, Atlanta. 1975–76.

Isamu Noguchi. Black slide mantra. Odori Park, Sapporo, Japan, 1988.

Group Ludic, Chalon-sur-Saône: Cité les Prés Saint-Jean.

Kuro Kaneko, Teppozu children’s playground Tokyo, Japan: opend 1935, reconstructed 1962

Pierre Szekley, Cour de l’école de Verderet - Village Olympique, Grenoble, 1967

Assemble and Simon Terrill, The Brutalist Playground, RIBA, London, 2015

Charles Forber, Cypress Hill Playground, Brooklyn NY 1967

Robert Winston, Playsculpture, 1961

Creative Playthings, Play Sculptures advertisement, 1953

Egon Moller Nielsen, Creative Playthings, Play Sculpture

M. Paul Friedberg. Vest pocket playground. New York

Richard Dattner, Adventure Playground, Central Park, NY, 1966

Lady Allen of Hurtwood, Planning for Play, 1968.

Carl Theodor Sorensen. Copenhagen. Junk Playgrounds, from 1943

Lady Allen of Hurtwood, Adventure Playgrounds in the UK, after WWII

Adventure Playground, UK, after WWII

Glamis Adventure Playground, East London

Assemble, Baltic Street Adventure Playground, Glasgow, 2014illustration by William Goldsmith

Assemble, Baltic Street Adventure Playground, Glasgow, 2014

Adventure Playground, Kolle 37, Berlin

Robinson Playgrounds, Switzerland

Adventure Playground, Berkeley Marina, San Francisco

Anarchy Zone, Ithaca

Loose parts Playground

Imagination Playground, Rockwell Group

SNUG Play Kit, Hattie and Tim Coppard, 2007

Richard Dattner, Playpanels, 1969

Public Workshop, Philadelphia

Pop up Park, Buffalo

Pop up Park

Geopark, Helen & Hard, Stavenger, Norway

BIG and TOPOTEK, Superkilen Park, Copenhagen

Pipilotti Rist and Carlos Martinez, City Lounge, St.Gallen, Switzerland, 2008

Bouncing Domes, Shoa Kinen Koen, Japan

Carve Landscape Architecture, Beuningenplein Playground, Amsterdam, 2011

KapteinRoodnat, elementary school De Paradijsvogel, Weidevogellaan 201, Ypenburg, Holland, 2006

Schulberg, Annabau, Wiesbaden, Germany, 2011

Héctor Esrawe and Ignacio Cadena, Spinning Tops - Los Trompos, play installation/temporary playground, High Museum, Atlanta

Julia Jamrozik + Coryn Kempster/BACKOFFICE, Line Garden, Grand-Metis, Quebec, 2015

PURE PLAY



Celebrating the open-endedin design for play

JULIA JAMROZIK

PURE PLAY


The LaFayette Story whole town design for generations of play

ÉLISE CORMIER, PLA, CPSI


The LaFayette Story

• Designing for Play – Every age, every ability

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The LaFayette Story


• Replicable approach

– Inclusive experiences – Places for interaction – The public realm

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Play is about restoration of the human spirit.

Play is about restoration of the human spirit.

Oakhurst Cooperative Preschool (Decatur, Georgia)

Etz Chaim Preschool (Marietta, Georgia) Etz Chaim Preschool / Debbie Deutsch

Orchard Hill at Bulloch Hall (Roswell, Georgia)

Creating inclusive experiences and places for interaction in the public realm.

Gordon-White BeltLine Park (Atlanta, Georgia) Atlanta BeltLine Inc. // Ecos Environmental Design // Pond & Company

Gordon-White BeltLine Park (Atlanta, Georgia) Atlanta BeltLine Inc. // John Becker

The LaFayette Story


• Replicable approach

– Inclusive experiences – Places for interaction – The public realm

• Case Study: LaFayette

Leapfrog / Luksong-Baka mydreamscapelife.blogspot.com

Gabriela Arevalo

Gray Parker

Alton Zhang

Grace Lee

Gabriela Arevalo

Will Nix

Mayor Barry Moody Terry Mangram Mike Ellis

Tammie Williams David Ennis Erick Vines

City Council

City of LaFayette Alabama

www.LaFayetteAL.com

Mr. Louis Davidson City Clerk

City of LaFayette

Alabama

Tammie Williams

Gabriela Arevalo Ryan Ballard

Evan Boecking Jake Howell Grace Lee

Will Nix Gray Parker

Megan Sauer Hui Shi

Ashley Shorter Sushmitha Sunder

Hao Wu Hanlu Yu

Alton Zhang

Masters in Landscape Architecture

Auburn University Spring 2015

Elise Cormier

• Every age and ability • Changes by seasons • Changes over time

Inclusive Experiences

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• Every age and ability • Changes by seasons • Changes over time

What is “play”?

Inclusive Experiences

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Places for Interaction

• Whole city • Regional connections

Ludic Landscapes

expl

orat

ory

plan

garden

playground

sports

park

historic

fitness trail

equestrian trail

historic trail

Ryan Ballard

Hanlu Yu

Hao Wu

Ryan Ballard

Will Nix

Equestrian Recreation

Hanlu Yu

RECREATIONAL RESOURCES (COUNTY-WIDE)

Rich natural resources close to Chambers county.

Hanlu Yu

Will Nix

Places for Interaction

• Whole city • Regional connections

• The Familiar • The Unexpected

Hanlu Yu

vernacular

redbrick

historical buildings

sports community

sidewalks

trails

children play live oaks

railway sports facilities

sense of place

County heart

Ryan Ballard

Megan Sauer

Gabriela Arevalo

Landscapes of Play

Public Realm

• Streets • Trails • Plazas + Parks • Community hubs

– Civic spaces (senior centers, schools, libraries) – Reclaimed spaces (old utility buildings, abandoned

factories, strip malls)

Alton Zhang

Hui Shi

Sushmitha Sunder

Alton Zhang

Public Realm




Grace Lee

Gabriela Arevalo

Ashley Shorter

Ryan Ballard

Hao Wu

Public Realm




Hao Wu

Gabriela Arevalo

Will Nix

Megan Sauer

Hao Wu

Hanlu Yu

Hao Wu

Public Realm


– Civic spaces (senior centers, schools, libraries) – Reclaimed spaces (old utility buildings,

abandoned factories, strip malls)

Jake Howell

Alton Zhang

Open Gallery Welcome Mat of County Seat

Project Description This area is a complex area that combines open space and semi-open space. Just a vacant lot now, the design will provide a good place for people to enjoy life and workday leisure time.

Alton Zhang

Ashley Shorter

Sushmitha Sunder

Gray Parker

Gray Parker

Piggly Wiggly shopping center

Jack’s Diner

Proposed parking lot retro-fit with raingardens

Nursing Home with views to proposed park HOMETOWN WALK

PARK & OVERLOOK

Gray Parker

Landscapes of Play

The LaFayette Story

• Play is about restoration of the human spirit.

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The LaFayette Story



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The LaFayette Story



• Replicable approach – Inclusive experiences – Places for interaction – The public realm

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PURE PLAY


The LaFayette Story whole town design for generations of play

ÉLISE CORMIER, PLA, CPSI


JULIA JAMROZIKSchool of Architecture and Planning Department of Architecture SUNY-BUFFALOwww.ap.buffalo.edu

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BACKOFFICEwww.ck-jj.com

ÉLISE CORMIER PLA, CPSI

SMART LANDSCAPESwww.SmartLandscapes.net

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School of Architecture, Planning, and Landscape Architecture AUBURN UNIVERSITY