A Playground for Making

Student Name: Enid Huang

School: Carleton University: Azrieli School of Architecture

Degree Program: B.Arch

Location of Project: Griffintown, Montreal, Canada

Year of Project: 2019

Brief Description of Project:

A Playground for Making, is a collaborative community makerspace that focuses on work, play, and leisure. With a strong emphasis of play, a skatepark is embedded on the rooftop. The building’s circulation and system revolves around the element of speed within skateboarding. The floor division derives from the three speeds: slow, medium, and fast. This is an analogy for the speed of making:

1st floor: Learning (classrooms, library, multipurpose room etc.)

2nd floor: Creating (woodshops, computer and sewing labs etc.)

3rd floor: Producing (collaboration rooms, cafeteria, skatepark, etc.) The transparent system allows the building to communicate how makers make - allowing people to know how and where the creations are formed.

The model uses primary colours of Lego bricks to emphasize the origin of creating - children often begin exploring the concept of 2D design with primary colours, and 3D design with Lego bricks.