Playground
Playgrounds and recreational spaces designed for exploration, movement, and imaginative play across diverse environments.
A-Maze!: An Anganwadi Courtyard Where Play Panels Draw the Routes and the Lesson Plan
Angled play panels, looping team routes and a shuffled kit of tunnels and beams turn an Anganwadi courtyard into a game children learn by moving through.
Juguemos en el Parque and Alcaldía de Medellín Stitch Climate-Aware Playgrounds into Hillside Barrios
Across Medellín's peripheral neighborhoods, Tejiendo Hogares turns leftover corners into permeable, color-coded play spaces that also manage stormwater.
Studio KRAFT Stacks Timber Treehouses Along the Edges of a Crowded Budapest Schoolyard
In Budapest's Terézváros, a timber playgarden climbs the courtyard edges so 500 children keep their sports court and gain quiet places to retreat.
Mineral Cave: Sunlight as a Playground Material in a Refugee Camp
A compact, vertically oriented play structure uses coloured translucent surfaces and shifting daylight to create sensory architecture for children in Samos
RE-UN Bound: Modular Playground Design That Turns Play Into Learning
RE-UN Bound reimagines playground design through low-cost modular structures that turn play into learning, confidence and community for kids
Play: Fragments of Their World: Remembered Architecture Rebuilt as a Modular Playground for Refugee Camps
Tom Gardner abstracts domes, arches and towers from the homelands of displaced families into a kit of child-scaled play parts for camp settlements.
The Main Dream: A Recycled Plastic Kit That Lets Refugee Children Build Their Own Playground
Thirty-centimetre interlocking cubes that connect on three axes turn play into construction, letting children author the spaces they occupy.
Light, Sound and Air: A Two-Metre Module That Lets Refugee Children Author Their Own Playground
A cut and rotated cube becomes cave, stage, lookout and acoustic instrument, giving children in camps a playground they can read and rewrite.
Wander to Wonder: A Modular Kit That Distributes Play Across Kutupalong Refugee Camp
Caroline Ho's timber frames, lattice screens and decks slip into intersections, edges and gaps, turning daily routes through the camp into places of play.
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.
