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Playground Charlotte Sharman Primary School
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London, United Kingdom
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Other Projects by De Matos Ryan Architects
Playground Charlotte Sharman Primary School
London, United Kingdom
London-based practice de Matos Ryan has brightened up the playground at
Charlotte Sharman Primary School in Southwark South London with a new play
scheme designed to promote dramatic inquiry.
The scheme replaces an uninspiring grey tarmac playground and is centred
around two new timber pavilions and climbing wall linked by a brightly coloured
abstract landscape painted directly onto the tarmac.
At a time of public sector spending cuts, the project illustrates how it
is possible to effect positive change through small-scale intervention.
Dubbed 'The Clubhouse' and 'Stage' the two pavilions have been designed
to promote creative play and encourage story telling and performance. They also
provide shelter from the rain and sun and double up as an outdoor teaching area
during the summer term.
The pavilions provide a backdrop for dramatic inquiry, a term the
practice became aware of whilst working with education psychologist Brian
Edmiston on a collaborative research project for Creative Partnerships at
Wearhead Primary School, County Durham. The intention has been to create a
space in which the school children can act out imagined narratives in imagined
spaces.
The scheme was developed in consultation with the pupils of the school
through their School Council. The
imagination of the children was unlimited and gave license to the playground
being understood as a fantastic marine landscape whereby the new built
structures and play equipment were flotsam on the surface of the water.
The pavilions are sufficiently abstract to encourage renewed
interpretations so that within the marine landscape the children can occupy
them as numerous parts of a ship: the hold, the captain’s cabin, an oil
platform and a rowing boat.
The pavilions are constructed of a steel frame and decking boards
affixed to WBP plywood and are clad with slatted Siberian Larch.
Sinuous lines carved into the larch of the Clubhouse create a wave
formation across the slats adding dynamism to the structure.
A series of gridded 'rafts' incorporated into the tarmac landscape are
hot spots to play out a unique game called Champ which was historically devised
by the school pupils and especially incorporated by the architects for this
setting.
Charlotte Sharman Primary School in Southwark South London with a new play
scheme designed to promote dramatic inquiry.
The scheme replaces an uninspiring grey tarmac playground and is centred
around two new timber pavilions and climbing wall linked by a brightly coloured
abstract landscape painted directly onto the tarmac.
At a time of public sector spending cuts, the project illustrates how it
is possible to effect positive change through small-scale intervention.
Dubbed 'The Clubhouse' and 'Stage' the two pavilions have been designed
to promote creative play and encourage story telling and performance. They also
provide shelter from the rain and sun and double up as an outdoor teaching area
during the summer term.
The pavilions provide a backdrop for dramatic inquiry, a term the
practice became aware of whilst working with education psychologist Brian
Edmiston on a collaborative research project for Creative Partnerships at
Wearhead Primary School, County Durham. The intention has been to create a
space in which the school children can act out imagined narratives in imagined
spaces.
The scheme was developed in consultation with the pupils of the school
through their School Council. The
imagination of the children was unlimited and gave license to the playground
being understood as a fantastic marine landscape whereby the new built
structures and play equipment were flotsam on the surface of the water.
The pavilions are sufficiently abstract to encourage renewed
interpretations so that within the marine landscape the children can occupy
them as numerous parts of a ship: the hold, the captain’s cabin, an oil
platform and a rowing boat.
The pavilions are constructed of a steel frame and decking boards
affixed to WBP plywood and are clad with slatted Siberian Larch.
Sinuous lines carved into the larch of the Clubhouse create a wave
formation across the slats adding dynamism to the structure.
A series of gridded 'rafts' incorporated into the tarmac landscape are
hot spots to play out a unique game called Champ which was historically devised
by the school pupils and especially incorporated by the architects for this
setting.
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