West 8 | Movable Elements: Letting the Plaza Reconfigure Itself

An elevated urban plaza, its ground divided into strips of different textures—perforated metal plates, wooden strips, and rubber—with almost no fixed facilities. Several huge hydraulic light poles stand in the plaza, shaped like cranes, and can be operated by users to change their angle—lighting is thus not planned, but used. A few movable seats and elements are scattered around. Emptiness itself is the design: the site returns the power to decide its use to people, with children cycling, skateboarding, and running on it. At night, light emanates from the ground vents. Photographed from above at dusk, the silhouettes of the light poles and the textured strips of the ground are clear. Avoid: fixed finished play equipment, single ground material, fixed non-adjustable lights, plaza filled with furniture.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一片抬高的都市廣場,地面以穿孔金屬板、木條與橡膠分成不同質感的條帶,幾乎沒有固定的設施。廣場上立著數座巨大的液壓燈架,形狀像起重機,可以被使用者操作改變角度——照明因此不是被規劃的,而是被使用的。少數可移動的座椅與元素散置各處。空曠本身是設計:場地把用途的決定權交還給人,孩子在其上騎車、滑板、奔跑。夜間地面的通風口透出燈光。黃昏時從高處俯視拍攝,燈架的剪影與地面的材質分帶清楚。避免:設置固定的成品遊具、地面單一材質、燈具固定不可調、廣場被家具填滿。