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Appleseed Playspace
Vancouver, British Columbia
Commercial (renovation)
2015
Hotson Architecture Inc.
Mansouri Design
3000 sq. ft.
“Play is older than culture, for culture, however inadequately defined, always presupposes human society, and animals have not waited for man to teach them their playing.” – Johan Huizinga (Homo Ludens, 1938)
Title:
Location:
Type:
Date:
Team:
Size:
Appleseed Playspace
Vancouver, British Columbia
Commercial (renovation)
2015
Hotson Architecture Inc.
Mansouri Design
3000 sq. ft.
“Play is older than culture, for culture, however inadequately defined, always presupposes human society, and animals have not waited for man to teach them their playing.” – Johan Huizinga (Homo Ludens, 1938)
When a private developer approached us with an opportunity to design a prototype for an indoor play area, we sought to preserve the openness and flexibility of the existing space with an idea around unstructured play and learning in the absence of a programme. The concept was to develop a single “island” of play surfaces that can facilitate a wide variety of activities – climbing, building, sliding, dancing, hiding, drawing etc.
