Playable Art Installations Bay Park Sarasota, Florida Landscape Design, USA Public Realm Photos
Playable Art Installations Bay Park in Sarasota
Jan 28, 2023
Design: The Urban Conga
Location: Bay Park, Sarasota, Florida, USA

Photos: Christopher Brickman
Playable Art Installations, USA
The Playable Art Installations project consists of two different playable installations created by The Urban Conga for the Bay Conservancy?s new Bay Park in Sarasota, Florida. The designs for the work were driven by community engagement conducted in the preliminary phases of the park?s design development.
The Urban Conga worked with Agency Landscape and Planning, who designed the new segment of the park to add two playable opportunities to serve as moments of social activation along the waterfront during the construction of Phase Two. Each installation utilizes the views, movement, and play to spark social connection along the bay walk. Both pieces become communal landmarks within the space, each uniquely relating to the surrounding context. Each of the installations was inspired by the large number of coral reefs that reside off the Sarasota coast, and were designed to appear as if they were two unique pieces washed up on the shore.
The first installation, titled ‘Portal’, is a swinging social bench with a flowing form that frames out different views of Sarasota Bay. During the equinox, the sun sits perfectly within the work?s circular forced perspective. The interlocking curved...