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KWY.studio designs "whimsical" marble play sculptures in Denmark

Portuguese practice KWY.studio worked with artist studio Superflex and local schoolchildren to create this series of five pink marble play sculptures in Billund, Denmark.

Named Play Contract, the structures were designed to be "informed by children's thoughts about play".

Created for Danish organisation Capital of Children, each of the five small marble structures incorporates covered areas, steps and pathways to reframe how both adults and children interact with the surrounding landscape.

KWY.studio has built marble sculptures in a park in Billund

"Most [playgrounds] are designed and built based on grown-ups' notions of children and how they should behave," explained KWY.studio.

"With Play Contract, the balance of power is tipped, and now it's the children's turn to devise a playful space for themselves and grown-ups," it continued.

"What kinds of play equipment should be in such a playground? What kind of playground would they like to have when they grow up?

The sculptures are based on designs made by schoolchildren

The play structures were devised at a workshop where 122 schoolchildren used pink Lego bricks to create models.

These models were then analysed to determine a range of forms, such as gate, amphitheatre and tower, along with a series of proposed uses, such as climb, swing, sit, slide and jump, which informed the final designs.

Children are encouraged to climb and play on the sculptures

"The process was to generate a unique result from the children's models while retaining everyone's ideas," said the practice.

"All models were carefully traced, and multiple combinations were layered and intersected into new configurations."

"At the end it is as if every model of every child is there composing a city, of which parts have been carefully uncovered for what is to be a new everlasting future," it continued.

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The studio built the five structures from pink marble in order achieve a feeling of "timelessness", which was intended to evoke a sense of curiosity around who designed the structures and why.

"Visits to quarries and workshops informed how the material was to be used, retaining both natural traces as well as man-made processing imperfections," said the studio.

"Finishes were kept to a minimum while much of the history of each of these large, impressive rock blocks was preserved."

Pink marble was used for its timeless qualities

Other recent designs for playground and play scapes include a playground in Amsterdam with minimalist animal sculptures by toy designer Luca Boscardin, and a playground in New York that features repurposed concrete wave breakers painted sky blue.

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Esrawe Studio and Superflex create stripy ceramic facade for Grupo Arca showroom in Miami

Multicolour tiles form graphic stripes across the exterior of this showroom in Miami, which Esrawe Studio has designed in collaboration with art collective Superflex.

The showroom belongs to natural stone company Grupo Arca and is located in Wynwood, a former industrial district of Miami where scores of converted warehouses are now covered with vivid murals by some of the world's leading street artists.

The showroom's colourful facade is meant to fit in with neighbouring graffitied buildings

When Mexico City-based Esrawe Studio was asked to design the showroom, it was keen for the building to fit in with its neighbours and feature some sort of artwork on its facade – but it needed to have more of a sense of permanence than graffiti.

The studio's founder Héctor Esrawe therefore approached Danish art collective Superflex to jointly create a large-scale ceramic work for the showroom's exterior.

Colours in the facade are inspired by banknotes from different currencies

Titled Like a Force of Nature, the resulting work comprises red, pink, yellow, green, blue, purple and mint-hued tiled stripes.

Two different styles of tile were used – one flat, the other a three-dimensional pyramid shape – to give the facade depth and texture.

Esrawe Studio and Superflex used flat and three-dimensional tiles to give the facade some depth

The colour palette of the tiles was loosely inspired by banknotes from different global currencies, while their arrangement was informed by the Fibonacci sequence – a series of numbers that frequently appears in elements of nature.

"Like A Force Of Nature evokes the illusion that money is as natural as a volcano or tsunami," explained Superflex.

"It explores the disorientation produced by both the intricacy of the natural world and the dizzying economic systems that are rapidly altering that world."

The showroom's reception features a grey stone service counter

Inside the showroom, the studio has veered away from bright colours and instead fashioned neutral spaces that allow Grupo Arca's products to take centre stage.

The ground floor reception area is anchored by a grey stone service desk, which backs onto an L-shaped timber partition denoting the company's logo.

Slabs of marble are displayed inside black metal frames

Visitors then walk through to a lofty gallery-style area where slabs of marble are displayed inside huge black metal frames. Should any marble be selected for purchase, staff can operate an indoor crane to retrieve it.

Upstairs are display areas dedicated to wood, porcelain and other materials that Grupo Arca offers.

There is also a bathroom clad in veiny black and white marble, as well as space for staff to sit and chat with architects, designers and other prospective clients.

Black and white marble lines the showroom's bathrooms

This is not the first time that Esrawe Studio has worked with Grupo Arca. Back in 2019 the studio created a showroom for the brand in Guadalajara, Mexico, which is made up of monolithic blocks of stone.

The Miami showroom was shortlisted in the large retail interior category of this year's Dezeen Awards, along with five other projects including the Dengo chocolate store in Brazil.

The winner in this category was announced as Box, a brightly-hued collection point in Helsinki where people can retrieve their online shopping orders.

Photography is byCésar Béjar Studio.

Project credits:

Architecture, interior design and furniture: Esrawe Studio
Creative direction: Héctor Esrawe
Design Team: Brenda Vázquez, Antonio Chávez
Renders: Yair Ugarte, Emanuel Miramontes
Facade artwork: Superflex, commissioned by Arca in collaboration with Héctor Esrawe
Landscaping: GSLA Design
Intelligent construction: Luz+Form
Local architect: Beilinson Gomez Architects

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