Children can play, hide and climb inside a series of sculptural spheres in a playground in Va?rbergstoppen, Stockholm designed by Swedish architecture studio AndrénFogelström.
AndrénFogelström has decorated Va?rbergstoppen, a park on a hill on the outskirts of Stockholm, with several colourful spheres.
The architects installed a giant orange sphere at the top of Va?rbergstoppen park. Photo is by Brendan Austin
The studio worked with landscape architecture practice Land Arkitektur to update the park, in a bid to counteract some of the urbanisation occurring in the park's suburban location.
"We wanted to make something exciting and unusual to inspire kids as well as adults to explore," studio founders Moa Andrén and Tove Fogelström told Dezeen. "The idea came from a client who was inspired by the steep hill and the thought was that great balls would roll down the slope, almost as if a giant was throwing them," they continued.
Perforated metal allows daylight to filter through the orb
A large orange sphere constructed out of perforated metal sheets sits at the top of the hill.
AndrénFogelström cut the metal into individual hexagons, before welding them together into the spherical structure.
It is meant to look as if it is about to roll down the hill
The architects spent a long time working out how to make the structure look as though it were about to roll down the hill.
"It was an immense task during construction to make them fit together, and ...