Dynamics

This project is a public park with a counselling centre for recovering drug addicts. The primary focus of the project is the activation of the public spaces through presenting opportunities for relaxation and play - and specifically, skating. The existing site is used as a thoroughfare between two streets as well as across the railway line. Adding the counselling facility and some public amenities to the site would activate the space and thus make it a safer and more desirable space to walk through. The project aims to create a sense of enclosure without obstructing visibility or ease of access through the site. The skating and cycling space spills out onto the railway reserve as a way of utilizing a currently dead space. This introduces the idea of permanent and temporary landscape and architecture. There are minimal permanent forms in the project, and it is designed so that if the temporary parts were taken away, the permanent forms could still be interpreted and utilized.