Re Submission Play Now Brief I & Ii

EDGAR ROAD COMMUNITY CENTRE

Play now Asha Farah Ko721804 Kingston University 2009Z

SITE INTRODUCTION First impression The community centre has a small and low maintenance garden. the neighbouring residents have a good connection to the centre with the centre used during the weekends.

Pedestrian movement Car movement

Site boundary

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ANALYSIS- SITE Understanding how to stimulate exploration and learning, there needs to be a gradual build up complexity in the proposed feature of the site. At first the younger persons vision needs to be captured to encourage further exploration, however, the most

Possible noise dstraction areas and quite ares

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Expected first circulation connected to vision

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1:1000 First entry points into the site Visional radius

Noisy areas Quiter area

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ANALYSIS

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1:1000 Edgar family centre is an adult education site, where parents bring along their children to be looked after whilst the parents are in classes there. During the summer when the classes are held they play in the centres garden. Currently the garden has no play facilities. The space is very small and can hold up to 20-25 children at a time. At weekends the centre wants to expand it’s services to the local community by opening up the garden. The centre want to then make some adjustments to the garden by extending into an area opposite the current site, which is acting as an entrance to a disused room. There is a clear view to the train tracks to the north of the site.

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CROSS SECTION

Current play area

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Anticipated extention tto the play area

A 1’ NEIGHBOUGH

EDGAR FAMILY CENTRE

STORE ROOM SHEED

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DISUSED ROOM

FOOTBAL RAILING

LOCKED GATE

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A 2’

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AIMS: To create a interactive garden for 5-8 year old kids to which encourages sensory learning. -The garden will provide flexible and interactive play as well as providing areas for quite reflection.

Objective -The garden proposal will focus on sound and dynamic play, featuring objects that can be moved and stimulated through engagement to encourage learning through sound. - change in levels will stimulate the dynamic play. -Planting selection would require medium maintenance to ensure character of the space is kept -a mixed usage of materials: soft, hard and textured to provide seating and shelter.

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PRECEDENTS HEDGES & SEATING

Seating allow for the quite reflection and reservation need in an play area. This proposal aims to allow children to move and relocate any seating feature to a desire location, to form group gatherings or reserved areas.

FORMS

Forms challenges the fixed play, and by instilling imagination this aids to the neural development of the young person. Forms in motion but still, have an intersing visual effect and this balances out the more natual elements.

The sunken garden aslo provide an area for quite contemplation, but its intended to enhance the experience of walking in the space.

The froms of a sunken object is the effect proposed and thses would be in the form of seating hedges and plant design.

The aim of the proposal was to work towards a dynamic space and by creating hedges that aid the momentum of movements adds to the overall objective for the space.

these seatings would be lower than the standard heigh for a child and object would be child friendly.

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PRECEDENTS WATER

Water enhances senrory development and propmpts relaxation. To alow children the ability of controlling and forming their play, the water prosposal aims to encourage children to initate their play. The two propsed water fetures for this spaces; a step-on -water fountain to minimse water water as well as create a sound to alert other that the water will be released and a pump and tank play equipemnt to encourage exploration.

SOUND

Three features which allows sound to be create through movement. These would be fixed play equipments, found along side the paths and in the main playing area so that it would be effectively used. the features would allow the usage of stick and soft enough for hitting with the plams of the hands.

Proposal 1

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sunken seats sunken hedges dynamic seating steps

A’ The sunken seats and hedges, encourage imagination and understanding of how objects can be dynamic intheir shape or structure.

cross section a.

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PROPOSAL TWO

7mm Mortar joint 300 mm mortor bed

350x 350x600mm concrete footing

PROPOSAL THREE

This proposal focus on sound and how the children may engages with each other to form sounds. This proposal is a fixed structure with the shkers attached to a serveral strings, that the children can pull to make a rattling sound.

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SITE EXPLOARTION

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A 1’

A 2’ PLAY FEATURES

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VEGETATION

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SURFACE PLAN

The maps are abstract representations showing the comoponets of the site and their relationship along a path. Each element has its own function and can be initiated as individual elements or played as a collective musical interity. LEGEND

PROPOSAL 1

PROPOSAL 2

PROPOSAL 3

VEGETATION

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FLOWER BED

SUNKEN HEDGES

PLANT CONTAINER

Existing trees

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MATERIAL STUDY: PAVEMENT

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SANDSTONE CAMEL DUST RIVEN

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TUFF GRASS

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‘TOT’S’ TURF 650 High pile turf constructed of texturized Polyethylene and monofilamnet polyethylene fibers

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‘Bounce BACK SAFETY PLAYGROUND SURFACE’ made ofr shock absorbing resilient rubber mats, it non slip and easy to maintain and is eco friendly following the IPEME cirtified code in the US.

D E TA I L

Tuff grass GrassPave2 with sand infill Irrigation head individual rings Irrigation head cover

Bounce Back

Riven Sandstone Flags

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