A pure white shed-like structure sandwiched between two brick buildings is one of several installations that have popped up along a main thoroughfare in Columbus, Indiana.
Snarkitecture's Playhouse is one of five projects created for Washington Street Installations
The series of Washington Street Installations was created for the Exhibit Columbus festival, which opened last weekend in the city ? an unlikely mecca for modernist architecture that was recently used as the subject of a movie by director Kogonada.
For the project, curated by local designer Jonathan Nesci, five international galleries were asked to choose a designer or studio to create a temporary intervention that responded to the busy street.
Snarkitecture inserted a white gabled-roof shelter in an alleyway between two existing brick buildings. Chicago's Volume Gallery selected New York-based Snarkitecture, which inserted a white gabled-roof shelter in an alleyway between two existing brick buildings. The Playhouse is designed to look longer than it actually is, and has benches along its two sides for members of the public to use.
Playhouse is designed to look longer than it actually is
"Using forced perspective to create the illusion of unexpected depth, Playhouse is an immersive environment open to all, but only fully able to be explored by children due to the diminishing scale," said the project's organisers.
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