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(storage and play) in the playground use simple fish-scales, but with individual colour variations to produce a strong randomised pattern that reinforces the shingle patterns.
We used colour in a different way for The Sara Jackman Playground at the Dr Eric Jackman Institute of Child Study Lab school. JICS is designed for use in multiple, simultaneous ways by students
ranging from three to thirteen. The playground embodies the principles of the risky play movement, giving kids opportunites to test their physical limits. The Onion (storage) and Potato
Our latest experiment is working with shakes on a series of new contemporary buildings for our Mulock Park project in Newmarket (currently under construction). In a nod to shingled garden follies that used to be part of this estate garden (the preserved historical garden is by Dunnington Grubb, Canada’s pioneering landscape architects) we are cladding all the buildings in shakes. The buildings are all simple forms – a tall-peaked conservatory, a long, sloped curving dog trot skate pavilion and an L-shaped boxy maintenance building. We started down the road of new patterns, but they all seemed so busy on these very crisp forms. We decided, NO patterns, but instead by using shakes we would get thicker deeper shadows on the large expanses of wall as there are few openings except on the Conservatory. Cladding them in this lowly material is disarming and unexpected – it grounds the buildings in this natural park but also make them somehow feel light and casual. top left: Mulock Park, Newmarket, Ontario top: the Skate Pavilion in the context of the greater Mulock Estate left: detail of the Skate Pavilion shakes
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