Building on the successes it has had with play environments, the City of Richmond, BC, chose HAPA Architectural firm to design a new play experience at Terra Nova Play Experience.
Located on a Middle Arm of the Fraser River, the Terra Nova landscape represents a myriad of landscape types: intertidal foreshore, dykes, remnant sloughs, and past and present agricultural use.
The play experience borrows from the form and character of these existing types, integrating and embedding the play experience in the park setting.
The play experience borrows from the form and character of these existing types, integrating and embedding the play experience in the park setting.
A public process that included the Big Kids Group, a team of advisors that guided through the preliminary fact-finding and site analysis process, and the Little Kids Group, made up of students from two local schools, who offered their ideas and design talents to the process.
The end result: a park that responds to its setting, its constituents, and the ‘imperfect grid’ formal language of Terra Nova.
No comments:
Post a Comment