Project Details
- Project Name
- Bicentennial Children's Park
- Client/Owner
- Parque Metropolitano de Santiago Junta Nacional de Jardines
- Project Types
- Community
- Project Scope
- New Construction
- Size
- 1,800 sq. meters
- Year Completed
- 2012
- Shared by
- Angela Cook
- Team
- Alejandro Aravena, Principal
- Consultants
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Structural Engineer: Luis Soler y Asociados,Landscape Architect: Marta Viveros | Macarena Arnello
- Project Status
- Built
- Cost
- $4,000,000
Project Description
FROM THE ARCHITECTS:
The project consists of over 1,800 m2 children’s playground, including tree houses, swings with harness, a forest of water spheres, and a toboggan cascade with more than 60 toboggans arranged on the hillside. The proposal uses the difficulties of the terrain to solve a classic dilemma of children’s games: make them either safe or entertaining? The hillside slope allowed us to reach enough height to make them fun, without being a threat to children’s safety. Furthermore, the perimeter fence of the park is a play area of 310m.
