Project Description
The Little Rascal’s House
It is a public space for infants and children to play. These days, children spend space at the expense of using it. Children pay for the academy and meet their friends to study, and teenagers stay at cafes by paying the fee. Not only children and teenagers but also infants and toddlers can play at kids cafes and amusement parks. In this world of consuming space, people who are in financial difficulties are not free to use space even to study or play. Therefore, we need public play space for infants and children to use it free, not consumption of space. Publicly operated spaces for infants and children should have been able to operate flexibly due to changes in the program rather than the installation of special amusement facilities at existing kids’ cafes. Above all, we hoped that it would be a place like a house where children can come to their own house and play comfortably. We installed small houses that fit the eyes of small children, and each house will be filled with a different kind of toy or play program. It is a space where naughty people can play around in their own homes.
Imagine a playground where there is a tree around the house where rascal can play freely among the trees. The pillar between the house and the house has a circular structure that shapes the tree and the ceiling. It consists of a program room that can operate independent programs, a washing room that cleans and stores toys, a shoe closet, a reception, a conference room, and a nursing room. Overall, birch wood and white paint color gave a cozy atmosphere, and bright green colors and small signage is pointed. The same color applies to toy storage boxes that covered all of one wall, and part of the storage box is installed with mats for children to go in and play. I hope it will be a public playground where naughty children can play as much as they want, as young children can play comfortably at home, not as much as they consume space.