Productora designs pink concrete playgrounds in Mexico
Pink concrete forms seats, steps and climbing walls in these two public parks designed by Mexican architecture firm Productora.
Infonavit, a federal company in Mexico that designs worker's housing, tasked Productora to create the two parks for residential communities in Tlalnepantla de Baz and Tultitlán, Mexico. Both public spaces are situated on narrow strips of land between apartment buildings and roadways.
"Besides being used by all the people who live around either to do exercise, concerts, gathering and so on, they also have been used for the buildings around them to extend their activities in an open area," Productora told Dezeen.
"They offer to the communities a new space that not only works as a park but also as space that articulate and connect the neighbourhood."
Each park is outfitted with pink pigmented concrete playground equipment, seating and pavilions.
The studio chose this material to create a uniform design throughout the park and because concrete requires little maintenance.
The Tlalnepantla park built for the El Tenayo Housing Unit is split into nine parcels that each measure 20 by 20 metres. They are arranged in a row on top of an inclined stretch of land that makes use of the site's existing topography.
At one end of the park, there is a multi-use court painted with yellow and green circles. Two sets of pink concrete bleachers are set up in front of the playing field for spectators.
Another segment is occupied by a triangular ...
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