Thawsi游乐场与标准的量产塑料游乐场不同，项目以最大化与自然的连接作为关键理念，提供自由自在的游戏体验。
Thawsi playground was conceived as a departure from the standardized mass produced plastic playground. A key driver was to maximize the connection with nature and to provide a sense of free play.
▼游乐场概览，overall view of the playground ©Ketsiree Wongwan
项目基地独特而富有挑战。游乐场本身是Thawsi学校整体改造工程的第一步。规划计划向场地中引入一条机动车道，这导致原本的游乐场不得不被拆除，而新的游乐场将被建在规划道路上方的平台上。
The site is unique and challenging. The playground itself is the first in a series of planned renovations to the overall Thawsi school Master Plan. The location of the new playground is in response to an ambitious plan to introduce a vehicular road into the site. This results in both the eradication of the original playground and the positioning of the new playground on an elevated platform above the planned road.
▼鸟瞰，aerial view ©Ketsiree Wongwan
▼游乐场位于架空平台上，playground located on the elevated platform ©Ketsiree Wongwan
设计最突出的特点是其与原游乐场的特殊关系。原本的木制游乐场深受学生喜爱，成为了他们生活中重要的一部分。考虑到这点，设计师试图在新的设计中保留原场地最成功的的品质，其中之一就是以木材作为主要材料。从这个角度来看，新的Thawsi游乐场可以说是对原有理念的升级再利用，从而呈现出一个全然若新的主题。
One of the design’s most distinct characteristics is its unique relationship to the playground it replaced. The superseded wooden playground was much loved and highly rated by students. In response to this we tried to preserve its most successful qualities into the new design, among them the use of wood as the primary material. In that sense, the new Thawsi playground can be said to be the result of the recycling and upgrading of ideas that allow an altogether new proposition to arise.
▼不同游乐器材的概念模型，conceptual models of the play structures ©Ketsiree Wongwan
游乐场所处的架空平台同样为设计带来了独特性。设计师以此为机遇，将项目理解为不同构件装配而成的空间，在材料和游乐设施等层面均有体现。装配式建造的想法让人们可以在场地外制造器械结构，再在平台上重新组装，不需要建造结构基础。平台也可以被看作设计的延伸，设计谨慎处理与场地上原有树木的关系，保证架空的平台不会给使用者带来危险。平台的边缘经过仔细处理，使得树木能够穿过平台，继续生长。
▼轴测图，axonometric ©Imaginary Objects
▼不同游乐器材的组装，assembly of different play structures ©Imaginary Objects
The elevated platform the playground is situated on also contributes to the design’s distinctness. We took this as an opportunity to develop and introduce a design understood as an assembly of parts, both at the level of its material and assembly as well as at the level of the play structures. This mindset of assembly allowed the play structures to be built offsite and reassembled on the platform without the need for structural foundation. The platform itself can also be understood as an extension of the design, as we took particular care to build around existing trees and make sure that the elevation of the platform didn’t contribute to hazardous play. We carefully designed the platform’s edges and allowed trees to perforate the platform.
▼为树木专门设计的开口和栏杆，opening and handrails specially designed for the tree ©Ketsiree Wongwan
▼沙坑，sandpit ©Ketsiree Wongwan
▼平衡木，balancing beams ©Ketsiree Wongwan
▼攀爬架，climbing frame ©Ketsiree Wongwan
最终，单独设计的游乐器材功能各异，有各自的结构逻辑和自治性，共同形成了丰富的空间。小桥、攀爬塔、沙坑、平衡木和踏步，各具特点的构件相互关联，整合在架空平台之上。
The outcome was a diversity of individually designed play objects, each with its own function, structural logic and autonomy. The bridge, the tower, the sandpit, the balancing beam and the climbing steps, each with their own identity, conceived with the others in mind, integrated onto an elevated platform.
▼木制游戏箱和攀爬塔，wooden tower and boxes ©Ketsiree Wongwan
▼儿童在箱体中玩耍，children playing in and out the boxes ©Ketsiree Wongwan
▼箱体内部，inside the boxes ©Ketsiree Wongwan
▼带有滑梯攀爬塔，tower with a slide ©Ketsiree Wongwan
▼儿童在塔中玩耍，children playing in the tower ©Ketsiree Wongwan
▼滑梯，slide ©Ketsiree Wongwan
▼桥，bridge ©Ketsiree Wongwan
▼桥的内部，inside the bridge ©Ketsiree Wongwan
▼细部，details ©Ketsiree Wongwan
▼平面图，plan ©Imaginary Objects
▼不同游乐设施的结构平面，structural plan of different play objects ©Imaginary Objects
▼立面图，elevations ©Imaginary Objects
▼细部，details ©Imaginary Objects
