The Academic Events Group, 3rd WORLD CONFERENCE on DESIGN, ARTS AND EDUCATION

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FROM MODULE TO SPACE: PLAYGROUND DESIGN
Habibe ACAR

Last modified: 2014-04-17

Abstract


The purpose of landscape design is to design comfortable spaces that meet people's needs and demands in open spaces. These spaces’ shapes, capacities and equipments vary dependingon user and activity type. These spaces theactivities will take place are designed according to the criterias; design concept, activity type, the location of the area to be designed etc. In this study, spaces designed depending on the activity type. For this purpose, a module was determined depending on activity type and spaces have been created with the coming together different sizes and directions of this module. This method were tested with a playground design studies in child, play and design course at Karadeniz Technical University Department of LandscapeArchitecture. Because playground design is one of the exciting field of study of landscape architecture. Additionally children perceive the environment with functional features unlike adults so perceive opportunities of elements in the environment. Affordances offered by modules provide functional use of space. Therefore,in this method, modules were determined according to affordances. Eventually, resulting design products showed that these approach assessable in the open space design.

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