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Makunaima - Building Spielpalast and Shadowpavilion in Berlin's
Britzer Garden
Constructing Spielpalast,
our activities at Britzer Garden in Berlin have made a big
leap forward towards longlasting playground architecture.
The construction of Spielpalast combines modern eartbuilding
and the quite technical but still very handmade construction
of a 4 meters concrete sculpture, which has become a big
joyful toy for children. Supported by sponsors Claytec,
Schöller-Nestle, BASF and others we founded a solid
base for the project, that integrated several crafts and
arts.
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Spielpalast
The structure of this playground architecture combines an
octopus-sculpture (made from concrete furnished with mosaic
layers), an earthen tower and a middle part connecting both
elements .
Certain preparations had to be done to erect the 8 tons of
concrete along an iron skeleton. A lot of craftsmen and
children shared the building process of this season. Strong
foundations were brought into the ground by a specialists
team and a nice roof built up in the end by a carpenter.
Specially the construction of earthen walls was done together
with children that visited "Makunaima 03". A lot
of hands make a community of builders. Together we managed
to get 2300 claybricks laid in order to follow the image of
the drawings. Sun was on our side, as we had the hottest and
driest summer since decades.
Having finished the body of the sculpture, we spent another
two intensive weeks with 8000 little glass mosaics to furnish
the concrete body.
Finally all the elements of the ensemble grow into a bigger
picture, and about 2000 hours of work lay behind.
So... interested how it looks
now - after 4 years and thousands of children to go down the
slide?
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Building Shadowpavilion
This playground architecture combines wood and clay all along
with some beautiful mosaics .
First we had to erect the wooden skeleton. Built
on a bench made of burnt bricks the inner circle grew.
Again the construction of earthen walls was done together
with children that visited our space in the late summer. According
to plan all elements of the ensemble grew into a bigger picture.
We did it 10 meters large, about 90 squaremeters of roof.
A good place to stay dry on a rainy day in the park.
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by Rainer Warzecha, Interglotz-Visionen, Engeldamm 18, 10179 Berlin,
Germany
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