Jan van Eyck | A Set of Components, Seven Hundred Bases: The Playground as Urban System

Van Eyck | One Set of Components, Seven Hundred Sites: Playgrounds as an Urban System
Instead of designing a single playground, design a set of components that can be placed in any vacant lot: circular sandpit frames, climbing arches welded from aluminum tubes, geometrically arranged stepping stones, and a set of low walls. The same set of components is rearranged and combined according to the existing conditions of different sites, so each one is different yet clearly from the same origin. The sites themselves are mostly odd-shaped vacant lots and street corners left after the war, small in area and irregular in shape, so the playgrounds are sewn into the city's interstices rather than being demarcated in parks. The components are abstract geometric shapes, not imitating any animals or objects, leaving room for imagination. Winter trees without leaves and brick street houses serve as the background. Photographed from a high angle, the arrangement of the components and their relationship to the site boundaries are clear. Avoid: components made into figurative shapes, sites being large and perfectly square parks, the arrangement being identical at every site, adding colorful paint.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

不是設計一座遊戲場,而是設計一套可以放進任何空地的構件:圓形的沙坑框、鋁管焊成的攀爬拱、幾何排列的跳石、以及一組矮牆。同一套構件在不同的基地上依現況重新排列組合,因此每一處都不同,卻明顯同源。基地本身多半是戰後留下的畸零空地與街角,面積小、形狀不規則,遊戲場因此縫進了城市的孔隙而不是被劃在公園裡。構件為抽象幾何,不模仿任何動物或物件,留給想像。冬季無葉的樹與磚造街屋為背景。從高處俯視拍攝,構件的配置與基地的邊界關係清楚。避免:構件做成具象造型、基地為完整方正的大公園、配置在每個基地都相同、加上色彩繽紛的塗裝。