Playscape

Columbia GSAPP Adv V

Fall 2020
Studio Critic: Bryony Roberts

The project lends itself to the idea of ‘Playscape’, where nature intertwines with the artificial world. Along with childcare, this project aims to respond to the care for our environment. The overlapping of gardens, affordable housing and the childcare center create an emerging excessive interior environment. Artificial environments are created inside to reproduce, and improved, processed, extracted and intensified environments. It also creates a safe atmosphere and sanitation climate for children. 

Overall, the ambiguity of inside/outside, the coexisting of living and nonliving, the lushness of the new artificial environment and the existing green space encourage children to play and learn. These multi-sensory microclimates resonate with architecture form, materials, texture, as a tool for education and physical development. Playscape hopes to transcend a liveness that is not just organic but begins to bring in a liveness of the adjacent city and mix it into a new urban potential.