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Sculptural Playground / ANNABAU
from Building Tech report
by Ola Elnazeer
Case Study introduction: https://www.archdaily.com/139145/sculpturalplayground-annabau?ad_medium=gallery
The retrofitting of the “Schulberg” in Wiesbaden (Germany) creates a new extraordinary public space that was constructed on 2011. It's a playground surrounded by people from all ages, an area that allow people to gather in it to play or even to chat.
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The playground is constituted by an artistically and ambitiously shape consisting of a large spatial structure.
Because of its exceptional and sculptural design the new playground is on one hand highlighting the urbanistic importance of the site overlooking historic Wiesbaden and on the other hand offering an attractive and complex range of gaming activities.
The main element is a spatial sculpture consisting of two green steel pipes winding and floating in between inventory trees, levelling in distance and height. In between this structure, a tensed climbing net is creating a loop,
The entire sculpture is 35m (115feet) in diameter. The inner ring holds a length of 107m and the outer ring a length of 120m. In some places the steel construction is cantilevering up to impressively 15 m. The structure does not exceed the height of 3 m to fulfill the safety regimentations for playground designs.
Within the loop there are six main stopovers for playing activities: in a liane garden the kids can climb up and down or swing in between lianes with different levels of difficulty Rubber granulate plates, partially rotating, are supporting the climbing or simply offering a resting platform In the lowest part of the structure, those rubber plates allow the user to pass over the net by jumping from plate to plate.
