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Golden Lane Estate Play Space muf was commissioned by the City of London to redesign an inaccessible and under-used sunken play area for under-5s contained within the Golden Lane Estate. Adjacent to the Barbican Centre, Golden Lane is Chamberlin, Powell and Bon’s first project. muf worked closely with pupils from the local Prior Western primary school in a collaborative exploration of how children play. The newly designed play area provides wide array of play possibilities. The area contains hiding places, a stage for impromptu performances, a geometrical climbing structure and slide.. All of these possibilities are spread across a multi-levelled urban rockery which contains rocks of various colours and textures, including a handful of reclaimed saddle stones. muf.co.uk muf.co.uk/portfolio/golden-lane-estate-play-space/
David Malaud, Architects at Play. Lausanne:INFOLIO Editions, 2023 https://www. librairievolume. fr/product/l- architecte-joueur- david-malaud
Pierre Antoine
The child who plays invents worlds of his own. L’architecture joueur , takes this metaphor seriously to theorise architectural creative processes based on the concept of play. From architectural objects, imagined or constructed, chosen in the playful moment of the 1950s to 1980s which followed the collapse of the modern paradigm, Malaud’s research deploys four paradigmatic game worlds: labyrinths, theatres, constructions and strategies. New Babylon by Constant, Teatro del mondo by Aldo Rossi, Fun Palace by Cedric Price and World Game by Buckminster Fuller decipher four player postures and their creative techniques: the situation, the symbol, the diagram and the map, a matrix of four fundamental rules of the game.
Architects at Play, 2019-20: the result of research into play and the imagination, built experiments and mythological narratives. The exhibition, curated by David Maloud, brings together two characters: the architect and the child. The exhibition is also a clear invitation for children to play, presenting several ways to do so: a slide, a sandbox, a rock to climb on, a tower to hide in, a small theatre. Through playing both children and their parents will grasp the exhibition’s content in a slightly different manner. https://civa.brussels/fr/expos-events/ evenements
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