Track Me & Chase Me: an Engaging Environment for Paediatric Therapy

This report is an account of the design project about a new playscape for the Child Development and Exercise Center of the Wilhelmina Children’s Hospital (WKZ)<br/>in Utrecht. The appropriateness the centre's current exercise room for children’s play and ergonomic skills is highly age-dependent and its possibilities for interaction are limited....

Hobble: Stimulating physical play in children with cancer

The aim of this project was to stimulate young children with cancer to engage in physical play to decrease the stagnation of their physical development. Children from the age of 2 to 5 are in the middle of their physical growth and development. This is also the age group with the highest risk of being diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia...

Biodiverse Resilient Playscape: Design of an ecological TU Delft campus which is adaptable to climate change through playful design

With rapid urbanisation and urban sprawl, biodiversity in Netherlands is rapidly declining with 70% reduction of species since the 1900. TU Delft campus is part The Hague-Rotterdam metropolitan region and an important green-blue connector with the surrounding forest-meadow-river landscape. However, there is limited opportunities in the human...

Play-cycle: The migration of play and play spaces

Play, as a practise which has a huge impact on individual human growth and social relationships, has been researched in contexts of multiple disciplinary fields. Theories of play have been developed in different realms and instructed the design of diverse play spaces. Specific architectural typologies as well as general principles of urban...