Housing Complex Playgrounds | Concrete Geometry by Anonymous Designers

Danchi Playground Equipment | Anonymous Designer's Concrete Geometry

Scattered across the open spaces between post-war housing complexes are a series of playground equipment made from cast-in-place concrete: hollow hemispherical shells, circular pipe tunnels, stepped blocks, and abstract animal silhouettes. Most of these items do not bear the designer's name, having been constructed by local contractors according to vague blueprints, so the proportions and details vary slightly from one location to another. The surfaces are rough, with exposed aggregate, smoothed over years of wear or covered in moss, and with chipped edges. Most are the original cement gray, with a few painted in now-peeling colors. Surrounding them are apartment blocks from the same period and old trees. Photographed in soft afternoon light, clearly showing the material's aging and the abstract forms. Avoid: surface renovation and repainting, refined and uniform shapes, addition of modern safety surfacing, demolition and replacement with plastic playground equipment.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

戰後集合住宅之間的空地上,散置著一批以現場澆築的混凝土做成的遊具:半球形的空心殼、圓管的隧道、階梯狀的塊體、抽象的動物輪廓。這些東西大多沒有留下設計者的名字,由地方營造廠依模糊的圖說施作,因此每一處的比例與細節都略有不同。表面粗糙,骨料外露,經年累月被磨得光滑或長出苔痕,邊角有缺損。顏色多為原本的水泥灰,少數塗過現已剝落的彩漆。周圍為同時期的公寓量體與老樹。柔和的午後光線下拍攝,材質的老化與形體的抽象清楚。避免:表面翻新粉刷、造型精緻統一、加設現代安全鋪面、拆除更換為塑膠遊具。