The ‘vertical public park’ designed by Al/Arch for the dense urban area of Bat-Yam Israel transformed one of those strange edge areas left by thoughtless city planners; in this case an awkward void between the end of a residential street and the freeway.
The surfacing is actually a concrete ‘blanket’, which slopes upwards to a wall with niches whose forms reflect human interactions (single, couple, group), though the kids climbing there don’t care much for the symbology, just for the uniquely textured space! The choice of material cleverly reflects the site’s previous history as a space for dumping trash, including mattresses.
Inspirational use of the vertical plane…if your playscape has a vertical boundary like the wall of an adjacent building, see if you can use niches to add playable and interactive spaces.
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