Sørensen | Scrap Playground: The First Playground Built by Children Themselves

Sorensen | Waste Material Playground: The First Site Built by Children Themselves
An empty lot enclosed by low earth mounds, with no finished play equipment inside: only wood, bricks, old tires, iron barrels, ropes, and tools, scattered on the muddy ground. Children use these materials to build crooked small houses, towers, and pits, with rough structures, inconsistent proportions, constantly being rebuilt and dismantled. The landscape designer's role is merely to define the boundaries, provide materials, and a resident instructor; the shape of the site is continuously determined by the users. The ground is dirt and grass, muddy after rain. Surrounding it are low-rise residential buildings and hedges. Photographed under soft, overcast light, the temporary nature of the structures and the clutter of materials are clear. Avoid: any factory-made play equipment, safety mats on the ground, neat structures, the site being completed in one go.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一塊被矮土堤圍起的空地,裡面沒有任何一件成品遊具:只有木料、磚、舊輪胎、鐵桶、繩子與工具,散置在泥地上。孩子用這些材料自己蓋起歪斜的小屋、塔與坑洞,結構粗糙、比例不一、隨時在改建與拆除之間。景觀設計師的角色只是圍出邊界、提供材料與一位駐點的指導員,場地的形狀由使用者持續決定。地面為泥土與草,雨後泥濘。周圍為住宅區的低矮建築與樹籬。陰天的柔和光線下拍攝,構造物的臨時感與材料的雜亂清楚。避免:出現任何工廠製的遊具、地面鋪設安全墊、構造物整齊、場地一次完工。