Playground
Playgrounds and recreational spaces designed for exploration, movement, and imaginative play across diverse environments.
Play: Fragments of Their World
Familiar architecture becomes modular playground design, creating safe spaces where displaced children can learn, connect, imagine and play.
The Main Dream: Modular Architecture for Play, Learning, and Community
A modular playground turns recycled plastic into adaptable spaces where refugee children can play, build, learn, and reconnect.
Light, Sound and Air: Modular Playground Design for Refugee Children
Light, Sound and Air turns modular playground design into a sensory landscape where refugee children can play connect, explore and find joy.
Wander to Wonder: Modular Playground Design for Children in Kutupalong Refugee Camp
Wander to Wonder uses modular playground design to create flexible, imaginative play spaces for children in Kutupalong refugee camp.
ZAV Architects Weave a Playground Through an Olive Orchard in Northeastern Iran
In Minoudasht, a 450-square-meter network of platforms, bridges, and slides spirals around tree trunks across a 40-hectare farm.
ZAV Architects Thread a Spiraling Playground Through a 40-Hectare Olive Orchard in Iran
Cheshm Cheran Bazi wraps red steel and yellow platforms around tree trunks in Minoudasht, turning an agricultural grid into a children's landscape.
Padilla Nicás Arquitectos Builds a Playground in the Clouds Atop a Madrid Maternity Hospital
Floating concrete canopies shelter a rooftop garden designed to accelerate the recovery of hospitalized children in Madrid.
Das Studio Wraps a 96-Square-Metre Adelaide Townhouse in a Snail-Like Shell of Timber and Color
A 1970s brown-brick townhouse on the edge of Adelaide's parklands becomes a three-storey home designed for every stage of life.
Shade School Playground Pavilion by Blue Temple
A lightweight bamboo pavilion provides effective playground shade while doubling as a flexible cultural event space, seamlessly integrated with school courtyard geometry.
SHANGRI-LA in Oita Playground by SAKO Architects
SHANGRI-LA in Oita Playground reimagines children’s play through sculptural landscapes, water terraces, sky loops, and immersive nature-inspired architecture.
Valanko ni Ramat: Play of Curves: A Reimagined Children’s Playground in Ahmedabad
Valanko ni Ramat is a Montessori-inspired, sustainable playground in Ahmedabad featuring recycled materials, colorful tunnels, climbing zones, sensory play, and outdoor classrooms.
Flying Chess Kindergarten: Transforming Play into Learning Through Landscape Design
Shanghai kindergarten transformed into game-based outdoor learning environment with themed educational paths, modular activity zones, and integrated natural habitat features.
