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Project • By Skylab Architecture • Skateparks
N M Bodecker Foundation
The N M Bodecker Foundation is a creative house balancing both natural and built environments. At its core, this project aims to inspire action and activity. With a series of informal performance spaces, an indoor skate park, and an outdoor fire pit. This unique environment inspires meaningful places to share open creative dialogue which is at the heart of why the Bodecker Foundation was built.
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One key project goal by the owner was to inspire “the openness to learn and find the unlimited curiosity you once had when you were a kid”, which, unfortunately, for many people, is lost as they grow older. As this concept informed the program, it also became the challenge; how to build a multi-use creative space in urb... More
Project • By Helsinkizurich • Parks/Gardens
Sports and Recreation Park
This project consists of outdoor areas by Kyrkfjärden’s school in Inkoo, Finland, designed by helsinkizürich. The areas create a sport park with amenities for all age groups. Instead of nowadays’ normal unsustainable construction materials (tartan, styrofoam, plastic grass), this park is sustainable, natural and organic. We have used a lot of wood and the vegetation consists of typical seashore plants.
These type of sports and recreational parks are promoted by the Ministry of Environment in Finland and its regional Business, Traffic and Environment Centres. The sports parks support communities and cities in their willingness to develop new healthy and sustainable parks, which activate the residents with opportunities for versatile phys... More