Playground
2025
Installation
Installation
Playground is an interactive installation designed and built in front of Richardson Memorial Hall, inviting curiosity and engagement through its playful form and materiality.
The installation consists of plywood panels and 2x4 framing. The resulting structure is an 8-foot-tall, 8-foot-wide, and 2.5-foot-long open-top box. While its raw plywood exterior blends with the building’s materiality, the vibrant red interior and ball pit walls introduce a playful, contrasting experience. The interior, though visually engaging, remains inaccessible—visible only through cut-out openings on the surface. These glimpses, along with the unexpected presence of red balls, encourage passersby to engage with the piece and spark curiosity. Playground becomes a quietly interactive and deliberately ambiguous presence on campus.
The work is developed as part of a design-build seminar titled Fluid Monuments
The installation consists of plywood panels and 2x4 framing. The resulting structure is an 8-foot-tall, 8-foot-wide, and 2.5-foot-long open-top box. While its raw plywood exterior blends with the building’s materiality, the vibrant red interior and ball pit walls introduce a playful, contrasting experience. The interior, though visually engaging, remains inaccessible—visible only through cut-out openings on the surface. These glimpses, along with the unexpected presence of red balls, encourage passersby to engage with the piece and spark curiosity. Playground becomes a quietly interactive and deliberately ambiguous presence on campus.
The work is developed as part of a design-build seminar titled Fluid Monuments
The first assignment of the course asked students to design a small object inspired by a specific piece of architecture. Each student selected a distinct architectural fragment such as a plan, section, detail, or structural element and used it as the basis for an abstract design. The exercise emphasized abstraction and the translation of scale, challenging students to transform a building component into a much smaller object. Through this process, they explored how formal qualities of architecture can be reinterpreted at a smaller scale, resulting in objects that are abstract yet carry traces of their architectural origins.
Livi Bowers
Kunran Zhao
Andrew Audemard
Caleb Warner
Jack Levine
Year
2025
Location
Tulane University School
of Architecture and Built Environment
2025
Location
Tulane University School
of Architecture and Built Environment
Students
Andrew Audemard, Livi Bowers, Jack Levine, Caleb Warner, Kunran Zhao
Many thanks to
Nicholas LiCausi, Jesse Toohey, and Tulane CELT
Andrew Audemard, Livi Bowers, Jack Levine, Caleb Warner, Kunran Zhao
Many thanks to
Nicholas LiCausi, Jesse Toohey, and Tulane CELT