Baan Tha Aj

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Site Budget:

Materials: $2000 (local currency 60,000Thai Baht)

Project Maintenance: 

How will the project be maintained over time?  The school is government funded and also has support from other local NGO's who will assist with Maintenance costs over time,

Who will maintain the project?  The school will be responsible for the maintenance of the site.

 

From the competition winner (Michael Lau)

Design Statement: Monster Playground

“It’s a playspace for children, not a place for things with children in it!”

 

The concept is to create a sustainable playground for developing countries with limited resources and tools. The play area is designed with children in mind and is based on movement and flow between various play and landscape elements:

                The beacons: Climbing, hanging and swinging elements.

                Mounds and ditches: Climbing, slides and vantage points and natural grass ditches.

                Sea monsters: Climbing, social and imaginative free play areas.

                The walkway: Recycled tire bridge access walkway.

Play areas need to enhance physical, sensory and social development of children through different forms of play in a natural environment:

Physical development:  The main concept is to form a strong link between play elements to create an energetic sequence of play events, a non-stop repeat of movement actions such as balance, co-ordination, climbing, swinging and jumping. Keeping children energized and excited through constant movement.

Sensory development:  The design provides a strong visual and physical relationship with play and landscape elements so that children can form a stronger bond with the environment. Colour scheme is designed to aid navigation between different play elements with strong two tone colours for familiarity and identifies hot spot play areas. Natural grass ditch and climbing surfaces create a contrasting tactile relationship between hard and soft planting elements and brings nature closer to the school.

Social development:       To encourage social, role-playing and group play activities, sea monsters create a strong play area identity and fuels imagination to help children attach themselves to the play area making it a playspace belonging to the children.

The design and construction focuses on locally available materials and mainly uses recycled tires, logs and earth materials using simple construction techniques:

                Mounds and ditches are created using existing earth materials with recycled tires.

                Beacon elements are from logs, chains, ropes and recycled tires.

                Animal sculptures are from recycled tires.

                Bridge walkway is made from recycled tires.

 

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