In London, a family with young children did just that. Lacking any mature trees of their own, they were saddened by the loss of a neighbor’s ailing tree, which provided shade and a sense of a natural environment to their urban backyard. They turned to architecture firm De Matos Ryan to build a play structure that evoked the wonder of a treehouse. Completed in 2021, the “Penfold” project is an unusual take on playhouses that could be mimicked in other treeless environments.

“All children have an unencumbered view of the world, who, given the opportunity to express themselves, can act as a catalyst to highly innovative and imaginative concepts,” say the architects. “Together we developed ideas around a den which was inaccessible to adults but had a crow’s nest, referencing their favorite cartoon Danger Mouse, in which the reluctant sidekick, Penfold, is a timid, bespectacled hamster.”

“Penfold’s codename ‘Jigsaw’ gave license to develop an entirely sustainable geometric timber frame that was elemental and simply looked like the way it was built. The structure needed to be prefabricated in pieces and carried through the house via domestic scaled doors. When assembled the triangular Douglas fir frames combined tom are a truncated pyramidal form. The Siberian Larch slatted cladding has a stainless steel cable lattice to encourage climbing plants over the volume and ultimately create the sense of a tree that never was.”

De Matos Ryan wanted to give Penfold an unusual form and abstract scale so it could become anything the kids can possibly conjure up with their imaginations, from a pirate ship to a castle turret. Since it’s so tall, they had to get planning permission to build it, which was granted only on the provision that the family must remove it if the property is ever sold. Thankfully, since it’s modular, that just means they’ll have an opportunity to pack it up and take it with them if they like.

This idea of allowing vines to climb up over the structure to give it a lushly vegetated feel is brilliant. Whether or not any of the family’s neighbors cut down additional trees, the kids will retain the fun and functionality of their treehouse, and the whole family will have something green to look at from their back windows.

The structure brings a sense of childlike wonder to the compact garden. Wouldn’t you want to climb inside and explore it, too? Alas, the builders have ensured a “kids only” policy by building the entrance as a portal so low you’d have to crawl into an uncomfortably tight space to get in.

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Shanghai based-firm 100 Architects were charged by the local government with “activat[ing] this pedestrian junction” in a brand new commercial and residential area of the port city. For maximum head-turning value, they decided to turn the entire park into a metaphorical volcanic eruption filled with bright, attention-grabbing reds, oranges, and yellows.

The 14,000-square-foot park uses small stairways to signal the beginnings of a figurative outpouring from the Earth’s crust. Tiered, overlapping shade structures throughout symbolize the infectious lava of fun venting upwards and spilling back down through a slide and over the wide steps.

The magma continues its inviting flow around a picnic table and stools. A ramp from an adjacent building is painted brilliant orange, pouring the excitement down towards a large playground. Visitors can follow fire-colored paths around the park and tackle climbing shapes, small hills, and a giant tic-tac-toe table along the way. A swing pergola, seesaws, more slides, punching bags, and tunnel tubes all beckon to passersby. LED rope lights trim the shade and play structures, and spotlights on the trees provide an enticing ambiance at night.

For less agile pedestrians, 100 Architects also included several seating and resting areas with sun-blocking canopies. A mahjong table and adult sized-swings complete the experience.

“The flow of magma creates an intense and vivid circuit of events and spaces arising by its side,” the designers explain. “Altogether the proposal creates an incandescent public space that acts as an urban attractor and entertainment hotspot.”

According to the company website, “100 Architects was born with the mission of improving our cities and the experience of citizens in the public realm.” They are known for their colorful and playful temporary street installations throughout China, and for their quirky landscape architecture in places like Hong Kong, Mexico City, and Santiago. Energetic colors and an abundance of geometric shapes are hallmarks of their designs. The Magma Flow project fits nicely into the firm’s overall niche, so-called “neighborhood interventions.”

The company adds “the main objective of this typology is to trigger a massive public interest to the place through a strong visual impact, usually of a permanent nature, encouraging the rise of high public affluence and establishing an urban landmark that can cultivate important human dynamics and boost commercial activity.”

Ningbo is the second most populous city in Zhejiang Province, China, and 100 Architects hopes that the Magma Flow project will be “of such magnitude and notoriety” that it’ll “impact not only the immediate surrounding urban environment, but rather the urban dynamics of a whole neighborhood, becoming an urban landmark and a local attractor of social interactions in a given neighborhood.”

While a real-life volcano might be more likely to inspire fear than fun, it’s hard not to get swept up in Magma Flow’s colorful currents.

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With a mind toward producing less waste while also creating new, useful, and beautiful things, repurposing has become an important part of how those in both fashion and design have come to reevaluate their respective industries.

Awards like the Design Prize recognize such efforts through their “Social Impact” category. Since 2017, this annual award has helped shine a spotlight on extraordinary design achievements that make an impact through thoughtful and eco-conscious projects.

This year, the Design Prize 2021 for social impact was awarded to Bangkok Project Studio, a Thailand-based firm led by Boonserm Premthada. Primarily based in Thailand, Bangkok Project Studio is known for their outstanding nuanced designs that often underscore the importance of nature. Past projects include an elephant museum made of upcycled bricks (themselves created from elephant dung), “The Walk,” an elevated walkway meant to highlight the importance of the often-overlooked natural world beneath our feet, and an observation tower at “Elephant World” in Thailand.

The latest project, and the winner of this year’s social impact Design Prize, is yet another feather in the cap of the Thai firm, this one in the form of a nine-meter rice tower. While this in itself may not sound very exciting, there are several things about the project that stand out and make it award-worthy. Located in a zoo in the country’s northeastern city of Nakhon Ratchasima, the imposing nine-meter tall rice tower was constructed through the intentional repurposing of five timber barns that were set to be demolished. The firm, led by Premthada, took apart the existing barns and reassembled them into something new, with an “[aim to] give new architectural language to the word ‘barn’ or ‘rice storage’ commonly found and used after the harvest season,” according to designboom.

This rethinking and reimagining of existing structures or objects has always been an important consideration for the firm, who often aims to merge their structures with their natural surroundings and connect them in some way. Here, the rice tower was created using the wood from the deserted barns, maintaining the overall essence of the their original purpose. Rising up from the ground in a new and exciting form “connecting the ground and the sky,” the tower is a testament to the importance of rice in Thailand, specifically in this northeastern region, which produces the best quality rice in the largest quantities. The repurposed wooden spire is also a monument to rice farmers, who nurture, grow, and harvest the crop while acting as its caregivers.

Through a mindful repurposing of dilapidated rural barns, Bangkok Project Studio “was inspired to give new language to the wooden barn,” creating a structure that’s multipurpose in both its messaging and practical uses. Serving as a playground for children by day and a habitat for local birds and animals at night, the structure is truly meant to be welcoming to all. Now, one of the area’s most signature features has become something new and impressive that’s not only symbolic, but symbiotic, working in tandem with its natural surroundings to create something beautiful and useful.

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100 Architects is a Shanghai-based office of 15 young international creative designers and architects who work “at the intersection of place making, street art, landscape architecture, and urban interventions.” They’ve already realized dozens of awesome public spaces around the world, and now they’re collaborating with French urban planning group Playgones on a vision that focuses on the importance of play.

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These aren’t just any old playgrounds. They function as urban art installations as much as functional spaces, each one custom-designed for its particular setting in response to the surrounding landscapes and architecture. Visible from blocks away, they make no attempt to blend in, luring in both kids and their parents like beacons. Each space also incorporates features like climbable surfaces, protective umbrellas, sport courts, benches, jungle gyms, swings, and slides.

Both Playgones and 100 Architects aim to make public spaces more fun and kid-friendly. They want to encourage social interaction above all else, inviting users to jump, sit, climb, lie down, take selfies, and more. If you’re looking at all these play surfaces and thinking about germs, you’re not alone, though mask wearing and nearby hand sanitizing stations would certainly help with that (and, just to be safe, maybe everyone should do their best to avoid ball pits in general for the foreseeable future).

Even if you don’t have kids or aren’t much of a jungle gym user yourself, just catching a glimpse of installations like these could help bring a smile to your face in hard times.

“We questioned ourselves about how to call attention and make our projects remarkable in this culture of disposability, wherein art is forgotten as quickly as it is celebrated,” says the 100 Architects team. “And we came to understand that just architectural objects for social interactions were not enough to attract attention on a global scale. Rather, we had to play according to the rules of this culture of overstimulation, in addition to having a functional purpose and a meaningful narrative.”

“Our projects had to pop and be controversial, eye-catching and contrasting from their surroundings, hence our particular use of color and iconic shapes. But our projects also had to offer an interesting program of functions to be openly used and enjoyed, displayed as open platforms for social interactions. In short, we needed a striking and eye-catching style that would call the attention of citizens, stimulating them and encouraging the occurrence of social dynamics. Our projects in public spaces seek to stimulate the user by providing colorful landscapes and intricate topographies that allow the user to interact in a much closer way with the objects and the space.”

Each new project will be posted on 100 Architects’ Instagram as it’s finished. Their portfolio really is dazzling, and worth checking out in its entirety just for the fascinating variations in shapes, colors, and configurations.

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Planted rooftops can also help lessen heat exposure, reducing the need for air conditioning outside. But one of the biggest benefits of a usable rooftop is its ability to expand access to the outdoors. Many existing houses could be modified to support retrofits, but building new ones specifically with this feature in mind allows for even more creative possibilities.

With “The Red Roof,” a house in the Vietnamese province of Quang Ngai, TAA Design shows how to take full advantage of a small plot of land without sacrificing access to nature or the ability to grow food. The total area of the property is just 80 square meters (861 square feet), which could have easily led to an unsatisfying compromise between indoor and outdoor space in a more conventional house/yard arrangement. Set on the main road of a rural village that has seen rapid urbanization in recent years, the house was designed to meet the needs of a married couple in their 50s who wanted access to garden space and room to dry rice paddy after harvesting.

The architects immediately knew that maintaining this kind of traditional lifestyle would be hard in a community where big, modern houses were increasingly infringing upon the remaining green space. They decided to go with a stepped roof design full of built-in planters to make gardening tasks as easy as possible on the aging couple. The house itself stretches to the full boundaries of the property, maximizing space inside as well as creating room for numerous courtyards outside, complete with a bicycle repair space, traditional outdoor wood stove, paddy drying yards, a rice warehouse, chicken yards, and more.

The TAA team adds: “In the search of a new appropriate typology for the context, we [were] convinced that adapting the new architecture based on the traditional cultural lifestyle of the couple [was] the most important task. Vegetable gardens and multi-purpose playgrounds become the soul of houses in this village. We proposed small courtyards in the front, middle, and back of the house to connect indoor spaces with nature. Instead of having a large yard like other houses in the village, we create[d] many courtyards with different heights suitable for the height of the house structure. On the mezzanine floor, there is a small yard connected to the yard in the middle of the house.”

“The rooftop garden is adjacent to the courtyard of the mezzanine floor, creating a playground and vegetable garden that connects from the roof to the ground floor. The products from the garden go directly to everyday meals, fresh and always available. The couple has happy hours together growing their own food, and a lot of times, sharing their products with the neighbor[ing] families. The architecture has [unexpectedly] been generating community social interactions as its by-product. The rooftop garden also has the role of insulating the house. The internal temperature is significantly reduced compared to [that of houses employing] corrugated steel [rooftops].”

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As you approach, you’ll see two circular entrances ringed by perforated metal screens, the word “FAIRYLAND” emblazoned above one of them. This mood-setting detail gives you an idea of what you’ll find inside. This is no ordinary café. It’s a place that parents, caregivers, and kids can enjoy together, and it really does feel like stepping into a whole new world.

For kids, Fairyland probably feels like heaven. That’s kind of what it looks like, too. Undulating sheets of acrylic on the floors and ceiling mimic the look of an “ocean of clouds” in the central play area known as “Cloudy Town.” This space also features tree houses, slides, a miniature carousel, and a pit full of translucent balls. Then, within the “Golden Castle,” fireplaces and candles create a glowing atmosphere. A white gallery is tucked away for quiet time and privacy.

Adults aren’t neglected, either. In addition to the small pitched-roof houses scattered around inside, there are also comfortable dining areas overlooking the play areas, complete with U-shaped couches. It’s easy to imagine groups of moms gathering here to chat and connect while keeping an eye on the children.

One of the project’s lead designers notes: “One morning my daughter Tangtang was drawing out her dreamy fairyland, and I really want[ed] to make that dream come true so more kids c[ould] come and join in this wonderful fairyland. The exterior facade of the restaurant is made of aluminum panels with punctures of various sizes on it to create [the] effect of ripples woven together. Behind these ripples, a world between reality and dreams is created for kids. The front lobby is a circular space surrounded by a forest of lights, which is composed of 1000 acrylic tubes that are able simulate the effect of sunlight shining through thick layers of leaves to provide a unique forest experience [using] the reflection of the mirrored wall.”

“Kids, there will be no unwitnessed life [here], because we’ll be here for you, and every one of you will be the shiny star because we made a stage for you. Red velvet curtains slowly reveal the gateway to old memories with neon lights, wood floors, beautiful wallpaper, and crystal chandeliers. The future and the past are now interweaved, and the stage is ready for you to dance. [Even the] restroom becomes the daydream for kids. Cotton candies become girls’ favorite cloud lamps and mirrors, and boys can be astronauts traveling space.”

Don’t these pictures make you wish there were more spaces like this, where kids can experience a little bit of magic mixed in with the more mundane aspects of daily life?

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The idea is to allow children to safely interact with urban environments on their own terms, giving them age-appropriate spaces adjacent to important cultural spaces for adults. Set within the Intermediae exhibition space, the leisure installation features bold geometric shapes in a rainbow of vivid hues that contrast with their industrial surroundings, which themselves are part of a reclaimed slaughterhouse complex.

But it’s not just for kids, explains Kevin Haley, co-founder of Aberrant Architecture. Adults can interact with it as well, helping their children explore, learn, and play as they go. The purpose of the space is to explore how art can help propose new models for inclusion and coexistence within cities.

“To the question of how we can transform the urban space through play, Aberrant Architecture replies with structures, shapes, and colors that invite children of all ages to use this new place in an imaginative way,” add the architects. “The resulting interior landscape is composed of follies, crevices, and different elevations which, although they make up a fantastic territory that can be used by the communities that come to Intermediae each day, don’t impose rigid restrictions in terms of how people must behave. This flexibility also means that the playground can be used as a setting for a range of activities during the months when it will be open.”

“This Playground continues Intermediae Matadero’s work on childhood through commissions to interdisciplinary artists to design spaces for play. With these Playgrounds, Intermediae Matadero highlights the need to dedicate more spaces for children in contemporary cities. Through commissions to international artists to imagine new places to play, Matadero Madrid also makes a unique statement for the right to also play within cultural institutions.”

The temporary installation will be open Tuesday through Sunday each week through September 22nd, 2019, when it will be replaced by a new experimental playground designed by Spanish artist Leonor Serrano Rivas. Intermediae, a program of Matadero Madrid Center for Contemporary Creation devoted to the production of trans-disciplinary artistic projects based on experimentation and shared learning, will also organize a seminar to discuss integrating such spaces for children into more cultural institutions around the world.

Founded by David Chambers and Kevin Haley, Aberrant Architecture is known for designing creative spaces for children, including a mobile playground and partnerships with the Victoria & Albert Museum in London.

Landscape for Play is the latest in a string of cool modern play spaces for kids that place an emphasis on beautiful design, interactivity, and an adventurous spirit. For more examples, check out MAD’s Courtyard Kindergarten in Beijing and Nook Ballston, “a curated, gallery-like experience” made of natural birch wood with sensory-friendly details.

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The floating playground seen in aerial renderings is actually a fluid network of platforms and walkways that connects the school’s buildings, turning the roof into a playful refuge that’s bursting with opportunities for fun. MAD has also woven modern structures — including a residential unit from the 1990s — through the old courtyard to transform the spaces between the original buildings. They believe designs like this can help deepen children’s understanding of time and depth.

“There is a saying in old Beijing when children are naughty: ‘if you go three days without being punished, the roof will cave in,’” says founder Ma Yansong. “My ideal kindergarten is not a theme park or a place of shelter. It should be objective and real but go beyond reality and provide some space for the unknown and imagination.”

Renderings also give us a sneak peek at some of the school’s other fun features, including a domed rooftop area protected from the elements and a tubular blue slide. Openings in the platforms make space for three ancient trees on the site and allow natural light to filter down to the ground.

Beneath the new roof sits enough open-plan space to accommodate 400 children aged two through five, as well as several classrooms, a library, a small theater, and a gymnasium, all of which have been designed with a light and airy touch that encourages “a free and inclusive atmosphere.” The outdoor areas seamlessly interplay with the indoors, allowing the children to feel immersed in the school’s historic structures, grassy play areas, walkways, and slides even when they’re in the middle of in class.

Not only does the kindergarten center’s walkable red roof totally transform the landscape in which it’s set without displacing the courtyard’s preexisting architecture, but it also drastically increases the amount of space where students can scratch their curiosity itches. Children get to explore all the little nooks and crannies on the ground level (including the liminal spaces between buildings old and new) and gaze out at the neighborhood through the treetops, observing their surroundings from an entirely new perspective.

“Unfolding onto the site with a low and gentle posture, the roof transforms the limited space between the various buildings into a colorful playground that functions as the main place for children to engage in outdoor sports and activities,” say the architects. “On the southwest side of the roof, a subtly undulating surface of several small ‘hills’ and ‘plains’ creates a high and low terrain, forming a playful landscape.”

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HAO aims to create interiors that improve their clients’ lives, noting that “a good space is not necessarily luxurious.” What’s more important is warmth, customization, and optimized interactions between users and the spaces they call home. Each one of their interior design projects has a name that tells you something about it, like “Outer Space for Kids,” “The LEGO Play Pond,” “Block Village,” and “The Family Playground.”

Let’s start with the “LEGO Play Pond,” a beautiful contemporary home that’s been accented by the colorful plastic bricks we know and love. Not only has HAO designed entire walls out of LEGO bases, LEGO-inspired art, and oversized LEGO brick details throughout the home, but they have also built a sunken ball pit into the living room. Not a bad place to grow up, huh?

“Outer Space for Kids” takes the simple elegance of Japanese style and adds a touch of the interstellar, while “Block Village” takes inspiration from wooden building blocks to subdivide a small apartment with pine plywood cutouts. “Recall Casa” is a decidedly masculine home with a surprising soft spot for feline residents, with secret passageways and private window nooks built into the design just for them.

“Marvel’s Safe House” hints at a superpower-enhanced resident with a few subtle but effective design tweaks, like the bent bars around Captain America’s shield on a built-in bookcase. The rest of the design, however, is fairly restrained. “Our client, single and a 30-year-old engineer, purchased his first apartment and committed us,” HAO explains. “After his doing a lot of research, he came to us and hoped to have a home with a natural cement-based environment for him to relax after long busy work. We see this house as a hero’s house and combined some industrial elements.”

“Amusement Casa” lives up to its name with a family-focused design full of fun. A rope swing hangs from the ceiling of this light-filled space, which itself has been organized around a central island where everyone can gather. But the best part by far is the entire section of the living room that’s made to child scale, starting with a retractible staircase built into the bookcase leading up to a loft.

The family’s daughter can climb up the stairs, play in the loft, slide down to the kitchen, take a nap in her own private nook, and then start all over again — and when she’s worn herself out from running the loop, her parents can simply slide the stairs into the wall.

Doesn’t it make you want to commission HAO Design to make your interior design dreams come true?

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You’d better hope that you and your dining partner like each other enough to sit through an entire meal without getting up if you take a seat at this table, which will knock one person to the floor if the other leaves. ‘De Tafelwip’ by Dutch designer Marleen Jansen is a table with seating based on a playground classic, a see-saw that requires cooperation between two people for either to be comfortable.

The table is intended to remind diners not to get distracted during meals, focusing on their food and the company seated across from them. Ensuring that you remain balanced while eating requires more of your attention, making it hard to watch TV or scroll around Facebook on your phone.

De Tafelwip was developed as part of Jansen’s dissertation, entitled ‘Being Forced Voluntarily,’ on the subject of table manners. “If one leaves the table, the other diner ends up on the floor! Definitely not a charming thing to do!”

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No matter how old you get, playing on a swing is probably the most fun you can have on a playground. Höwler + Yoon Architecture brought that fun to a 2.7 acre space in Boston by installing Swing Time, a group of 20 glowing hammocks built for grown-ups.

The swings are lit from within with LEDs that react to the swings’ movement. When the circle is still, it emits a warm, inviting white light. When a passenger boards and begins to swing, the light changes to a lovely lilac.

The interior accelerometer and microcontroller sense the level of activity to change the color of the swings. The interactive nature of this quality makes the swings seem fun and inviting, even for people who aren’t prone to playing in playgrounds.

Although the glowing swings are quite a lovely sight on their own, it’s when many of them are in motion that the installation really begins to shine. The glowing circles swaying gently or swinging wildly bring to mind the fun-filled days of youth when we could spend hours trying to make our feet reach the clouds by swinging ever higher.

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Inspired by the classic cartoon Tom & Jerry from the 1940s, this fun vacation home for a family with four children features lots of space to run and hide. Opened up to free circulation to fully engage the occupants with the space and each other, the home is packed with jumping nets, sliding surfaces and other interactive elements.

“the house of Jerry the mouse were built, it might appear as a big piece of cheese in which the möbius strip would be a desirable route for him to run away from Tom the cat. Thus, the dwelling is thought of as the object that children would year for and that increases the meaning of having a holiday for the parents,” say Onion architects.

A three-story open space within the living area serves as a central play area with five nets strung at various heights and slops, connecting to different levels of the home. Holes in each net make it easy to drop from one level to the next.

A mirrored film attached to the ceiling makes anyone playing on the nets feel like they’re floating on air when they look up, visually expanding the space. Even the bedrooms are playful, with unexpected upside-down cutouts and tunnels leading to the common areas.

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This artful outdoor fireplace from Haugen/Zohar Architects is integrated with a nearby playground, allowing families a chance to duck in and take the chill out of a cool evening playtime.

The fireplace, built on a playground in Trondheim, Norway, is a wonderfully whimsical structure that provides a place not only to warm up, but to spend time telling stories. Its unique shape is reminiscent of traditional Norwegian turf structures, with a hole at the top for the smoke to escape.

A concrete base provides a seating area all around the fire, encouraging bonding over scary stories or tall tales. Kids are encouraged to play in the structure, giving it a triple life as a decorative structure, a functional warming-up space, and an extension of the nearby playground.

The architects, faced with an extremely limited budget, found an inexpensive building material at a nearby construction site. The small wooden pieces, stacked in 80 circles, let a warm glow through when a fire is lit at night. A sliding door is fitted to secure the inside of the little hut when it’s not in use.

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Climbing, swinging, running and playing are fun for kids on any playground, but the fantastical playgrounds designed by Danish firm Monstrum are so much cooler than any others.

Every playground design makes kids feel as though they are in another world – one populated by huge mushrooms, giant spiders, friendly blue whales and gentle dragons.

The colorful structures look like they came straight from the imaginations of children. There are “leaning” houses, shipwrecks, a lighthouse with a climbing wall, and even an enormous buried head for kids to play in.

Monstrum has brought to life the kind of play places that stimulate children’s imaginations while encouraging them to play and simply be kids. Now we only wish they made playground in adult sizes.

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With a fifteen foot diameter and pillows galore, you can pack up to sixteen people into this fun and imaginative piece of hybrid furniture. The Giant Bird’s Nest is a playful piece that encourages creative thinking, and you just won’t be able to resist climbing in.

O*GE sums it up well: “Its powerful, yet simple concept and intriguing character needs no explanation or user manual: Ready to to be used, to be played in, and be worked in.”

Sleeping, sitting, working or meeting, it is certainly more than your ordinary sleeping space – made on demand and available in three sizes for those adventurous enough to want to buy one.

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“The Giant bird nest aka ‘Giant Birdsnest for creating new ideas’ was conceived and created as a prototype for new and inspiring socializing space: a fusion of furniture and playground: A comfortable informal and sensual soft space. The wooden nest is filled with highly comfortable egg-shaped sitting poofs which allow ergonomic sitting positions and various configurations for informal meetings and social exchange.”

“The nest comes in various sizes, from a small and intimate nest for 2-3 people up to a 4.50 m diameter big version which can host up to 16 people at once – the soft space is perfect, comfortable and inspiring place for resting, browsing the web, reading, relaxing, loving, talking, briefing, discussing (…) Its powerful, yet simple concept and intriguing character needs no explanation or user manual: Ready to be used, ready for playing or working in.”

About OGE Group

“All our projects are about emotions. A design or a project that doesn’t trigger emotions or challenges perception is hardly noteworthy nor successful. The relation customers and/or visitors to our projects are essential for their success: they should be lovable, surprising, challenging, intriguing, social, inspiring, amazing, colorful, remarkable, distinguishable … and outstanding from the rest. This way they become popular, successful and sometimes brands.”

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