Cabe Space: creat a new era of play

Design and planning for play is a great way to utilize the public place and make the great benefit to people. While there are different roads and space conditions, how to optimize these spaces and facilities for playing has become a crucial point in design and planning.

Two cases have been studied in this article, the first one built in Vauban, Germany focus on an increasing realization that play does not just take place in designated play spaces, but in the whole environment that a child occupies. It can be concluded from this case that the future play site or planning can have the following features:

1) Play does not and should not only happen in playgrounds,

2) Pressures to minimize risk and liability in the public realm can lead to authorities‘playing it safe’, resulting in standardized spaces that fail to delight, educate or offer young people the opportunity to meet or socialize.

3) Play site should encourage children’s creativity, allowing them to take proper risk to learn their boundaries.

4) Involve nature as many nature factors as possible, encourage the use of locally sourced materials and construction by local craft people.

Case two talks about the devotion that has been put into children at the center of improving its play provision, showing that more and more attention has been paid to creat a better and healthier play environment. There are issues to be addressed by the funding provider on inclusive play, creative playpods, creative youth café, etc.

10 principles has been concluded from the golden rules of playsite design: a successful play space is a place in its own right, specially designed for its location, in such a way as to provide as much play value as possible. The rules ask practitioners to imagine a play space that is:

1) Designed to enhance its setting

2) Located in the best possible place

3) Close to nature

4) Designed so that children can play in different ways

5) Geared towards encouraging disabled and able-bodied children to play together

6) Loved by the community

7) Where children from all ages play together

8) Designed to enable children to stretch and challenge themselves in everyway

9) Maintained for play value and environmental sustainability

10) Flexible and able to evolve

As it summarizes, a successful planning for children to play should be a radical drift from traditional Kit, Fence. Carpet style playground. It should become a more naturalistic approach that will provide rich and stimulating play spaces, reflecting local site characteristics and need. Also, it will be by integrating more playable spaces into the public realm that a more child-friendly environment can be created — one that also meets the needs of the wider community.