The site was located in a corner of a grass meadow with two trees on the floodplain of a river in Lobeda, Germany. A terraced platform overlooked the site, which was where many locals walked from the residences above when visiting the park and the water.
The prompt was to create a stage for social tensions. As team leader, I guided the group to our solution. We built a literal stage that was also a magical meeting place. It entailed 3 levels, which were set in a circle to accommodate seating, table and bar heights. In the center of the structure the team weaved a tensile net that can bring people together in playful or relaxing situations.
When people use this structure together, they are inherently in tension. Varied heights create asymmetrical experiences, movement on the net affects all other users, and groups which grow in size must wrap around the edge, becoming closer with neighboring groups.
The night after we finished the competition, we decided to take in our design piece together to find that 5 of the 9 other teams chose our site as their post chaos gathering place too. Additionally the community of Lobeda decided that our design was so well received by the public, that it was to be duplicated and built in other surrounding cities.
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