'Hutong playground' installation launched in Beijing
The 'China Room' Research Group from the Department of Architecture and Design at Politecnico di Torino, in partnership with the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne jointly launched the 'Hutong Playground' project at the Baitasi ReMade event during the Beijing Design Week (Sep 23 to Oct 07). The project was a reflection on the theme 'Making Neighbourhood' proposed to the 10 institutions invited by Baitasi ReMade in order to reactivate the historic fabric of this district through micro-urban interventions. The playground transformed the existing area into a new gathering space where game-play was the most important element and the human scale was exalted through the arrangement of different games from China and Europe. The playground therefore became a community-making tool, where people could gather and spend time together. In this way traditional boundaries between public and private are redefined. To the article...
