Wandsworth Common
Playground
A proposal for a natural playscape for Wandsworth Council. Lady Allen Adventure Playground sits alongside the site. We wanted to take inspiration form some of her theories in play design - in particular her attitude to risk.
We wanted at the centre of the deign to be the highest possible (4m) free climb without barriers. This could be achieved with a web system of ropes that create a highly challenging risky climb but with an obstructed safe fall.
A live build pavilion project with Chelsea College of Arts Spatial Design students, installed at the Tate Britain.
On Their Way
A project led while working with muf architecture/art.
On Their Way is based on a series of interventions which double as a thoughtful wayfinding trail around Kings Cross. Mature root-balled trees are carefully positioned in temporary resting places across the site, their crowns pointing visitors towards the next destination, from the station to Coal Drops Yard via Granary Square.
The trees are found in purposefully unexpected situations and angles, emphasising the transient nature of their time in the district. They are, literally, on their way elsewhere: after serving as landmarks and meeting points for the duration of the Festival, the trees go to their permanent home at The Grove school in Tottenham for students with autism, bringing necessary shade to a formerly treeless playground.
