Playground design
For my final project in second year we had a site in Slovo Park, an informal settlement just outside of Johannesburg.
We had to design a playground for the kids entirely from concrete, as this was sponsored to us. Other requirements were that it had to be safe, robust and accessible in an informal settlement. The top three designs would be chosen and be built by our class.
My design with the concept: Learning through movement was one of the chosen designs to be built:
Our site:
Site analysis:
Concept:
Drawings (rough):
After incorporating all three winning designs into one, we started to build. We had one week.
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| Cleaning the site |
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| Digging trenches |
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| Cutting the shutter board |
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| Laying the DPC |
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| Pouring the concrete |
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| Smoothing it out and removing air bubbles |
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| Me and a dad from the community volunteering |
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| The three winners: Whandile Mkhwanazi, me, Megan Wilson |
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| Helping hands from the kids |
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| Decorated stepping stones |
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| Kids enjoying their new playground |
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| A grateful community |
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