Inclusive neighborhoods

Featuring a number of unique play devices, this park removes barriers to all who want to play! Many of the play areas include structures that can be enjoyed by not only children with differing abilities and those with assistive devices, but also by family and friends that are with them to provide care. Some of the park's special features include an in ground trampoline and an inclusive spinner that users can wheel or walk onto. Adaptive swings for individuals and groups are also available for children of all ages and abilities. Perhaps the best feature of all though, are the accessibile routes that lead to all of the play areas. Gabriel Park is now the perfect place for children to make friends and explore their abilities while playing sa... More

CAMPUS WINNENDEN – PROPOSAL FOR INTERNATIONALE BAUAUSSTELLUNG 2027 (IBA’27). WINNENDEN URBAN NEIGHBOURHOOD Winnenden Urban Neighborhood is one of the IBA’27 locations. Winnenden municipal authorities and the International Building Exhibition 2027 StadtRegion Stuttgart (IBA’27) are looking for suggestions for a mixed-use neighborhood of the future. We embrace one of the driving questions from the Bauwelt Congress 2016 on the productive city: “What do architects and planners need to build to make the mixed city a reality – how do we achieve a city for living, dwelling, and working in which the functional separation of these areas is removed?” Image credits TSPA Our answer is an urban campus fo... More

“Our residential areas are not designed for so many single living people, the rapidly aging population and the fast erosion of social networks. Action must be taken ”– Chief Government Architect Floris Alkemade, 2017In the spring of 2017, the Chief Government Architect’s Studio, the Council for Public Health and Society and the Humanitas Foundation organized the Who Cares competition.How can we organize care and housing for people for whom living by themselves is not obvious? And how can we combine living and care more emphatically, in a society that isolates living and care?Bureau SLA won the competition for the location in the city of Almere in the port area by combining two existing initiatives: the modern courtyards and the Burenbond. B... More