Rubbertree, Playground for the Baan Tha Aj School

Competition Honorable Mention for Innovation for: Play for all

Overview

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RUBBERTREE
A TREE FOR REFUGEE CHILDREN

Refugee children need a safe place, to be rooted in solid ground.
This tree with long and expanding roots offers an open and inviting landscape on different levels: spaces to roam and explore, for spontaneous play.
It provides shelter and shadow and places where children can sit in, on, under, or lean against and find a place where they can make a den and find privacy or can be alone with friends.
Simultaneously, the tree will make a lovely picture when children are playing all-over its trunk.

From cradle-to-cradle:
Tyres are made of latex from the rubbertree and now they have served their duty, become a sculpture of a rubbertree: that is a life circle.

Location

Mae Sot, Tak

Thailand

Project posted by officeannemarie

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Play for all

Name: Play for all
Host: Go Play
Type: Public
Registration Deadline: November 24th, 2010
Submission Deadline: January 7, 2011
Entry Fee: $25
Award: $1000 USD
Status: Winners Annouced

The competition entry ID for this project is 8353.

Project Details

NAME: Rubbertree, Playground for the Baan Tha Aj School
PROJECT LEAD: AnneMarie van Splunter
LOCATION: Mae Sot, Tak, Thailand
START DATE: September 01, 2010
CURRENT PHASE: Design development
PROJECT TYPE: Recreation Facility

ENGINEERING: Ing. W.B.M. Ham

DESIGNER: AnneMarie van Splunter designing artist

, Peter Verhaar advising artist

BENEFICIARIES: The school site will be at a school, called Baan Tha Aj in Mae Sot, Tak Province, Thailand, just 50 meters from the border of Thailand and Burma. In fact, it is so close to the border, most of the students just cross the Mei River (dividing Burma and Thailand) to come to school. There is a total of close to 1000 students, an ethnic mixture of Thai, Burma and Karen (a local ethnic group).

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