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Five Fields Play Structure : Boston Architecture
Project by Matter Design & FR|SCH Projects
Aug 3 2017
Five Fields Play Structure
Design: Matter Design & FR|SCH Projects
Location: Boston, MA, USA

Five Fields Play Structure has no purpose

And that is exactly how the designers intend for it to be. The project is a landscape for childish exploration. It shuns function and standard, in favor of liberation. The structure cultivates a child?s?and adults?imagination through play. It encourages inventiveness through its unfolding, discoverable spaces. The playscape is tailored to child size, but still accessible to adults. It prioritizes the child user, in order to both liberate and educate. It invites the older user to reminisce, and rediscover. The structure is a space for collective imagining and celebrating of all ages.
Five Fields Play Structure is positioned on land that is rich in civic history. The Five Fields neighborhood was designed and developed by the Architects Collaborative (TAC) in the early 1950s. TAC sought to foster community through creating shared, common land. Since its inception, the community has cared and respected the land as a whole. This land was conceived of as an experiment over sixty years ago. TAC?s experiment was a success?the upkeep and care of the common land unifies the community to this day. The designers intended to keep the spirit of communal...