Yinka Ilori creates "joy and excitement" with colourful skate park in Lille
London-based designer Yinka Ilori has applied his signature vibrant style to the Colorama skate park within the La Condition Publique cultural centre near Lille, France.
The indoor skate park was built in the latest stage of the development of La Condition Publique ? a cultural institution set within an early 20th-century warehouse, which was renovated by architect Patrick Bouchain in 2004.
Ilori used colour to transform the former exhibition hall, which is divided by concrete columns, to give the skate park a strong identity and to make it a bright, enjoyable space for skateboarding.
"The colour brings joy into the park but also gives the indoor skatepark its new identity,"Â Ilori told Dezeen.
"Some colours and motifs were inspired by the facade of La Condition Publique because it was important for me to bring some of these integral details that add to the identity of the building inside and in the skatepark."
Within the park, Ilori combined numerous bright colours with pastel hues. The brick walls have been painted bubblegum-pink or peach with graphic red, green and orange friezes, while the columns and obstacles are sunshine-yellow, green, red, fuchsia and blue.
"The colour pallet was determined by the experience I wanted the skateboarders to feel when using the space, which was joy and excitement," Ilori explained.
"I wanted the skatepark to control of their imaginations and allow the colours in the skatepark to allow space their ...
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