Play-Ground

Play is undoubtedly a serious and critical element of culture, and a generative force for
humanity. At present, however, districts of ‘leisure’ or ‘recreation’ either refuse urbanism, like parks, or remain inextricably tied to commerce and consumption, like shopping centers. The Play-Ground proposes an alternative to this kind of district-scale development, reimagining the highly traditional ‘leisure’ spaces of The Grove and Pan Pacific Park as a new kind of public realm that, through the construction of surreal programmatic adjacencies, makes space within the city for play as an end in itself as well as a projective and creative force.