Barrow Park Play Space by Ecoscape Australia

Aboriginal Nation

Nyoongar, Whadjuk, Beeliar

Client

City of Cockburn

Location

North Coogee, Western Australia

Jury comment

These mounds are made of dirt. They draw in kids who want to play to the maximum in a sculptural naturalistic landscape, and provide thrill and delight to the entire community. Barrow Park Play Space is an authentic community playground, firmly grounded in its context, that responds to the needs of locals and successfully provides a space that encourages all users to gather and participate. The area has a large number of families living in townhouses and apartments, and the resident children lacked access to spaces where they could socialize, express themselves and play in unstructured ways. The genius of this project was for the team to recognize and understand this gap, and proceed to undertake a collaborative design process with the local community to develop an authentic play space on an extremely limited budget, and evocative natural landscapes in a confined urban space.

Entrant Ecoscape Australia Project team Ecoscape Australia (Nicole Croudace, Francis Kotai, Taylor Koch); Three Chillies Design; Verdant Engineering; Ludlow Timber Products Photography Francis Kotai and Leela Day