Back to the Nature

When we examined the digital games that today's children play the most, we saw that although they differ according to age groups, they are generally exciting, competitive with different difficulty levels, taking risks and adventurous games.

The concept of the project is to design a playground that offers each age group the opportunity to develop different skills (sensory, social, physical). This playground is more than a game structure, it is the game itself. Children will not only push the limits of their physical skills, but will also have fun, excitement, adrenaline and happiness while climbing, trying to balance, and sliding down the slides.

Children who throw their energy away by contacting nature get away from stress, and the rate of anger attacks and anxiety decreases. Based on this information, we have chosen trees as the central point of the game (play structure) we set up for children to embrace nature. We determined the position of the structural and unstructured playgrounds using the voronoi diagrams (buildings, green spaces, trees) with the principle of equidistance. Then we created the floor traces from the combination of these schemes. In addition, we benefited from the mobility abilities of children in different age groups (0-2 / 3-5 / 6-12 years) in varying height measurements of the structure.

Many trials were made until the final product such as he design of playgrounds in a single structure, more fragmented and spreading game modules, the design of playground equipment played above or under the ground without being connected to a structure, the design of playgrounds consisting of closed-semi-open-open areas.

First of all, a literature search was conducted on children's movements, physical abilities and play preferences. Then, climate and built environment analyzes of Warsaw were made. In line with these researches, the final product was created.