A sports centre in Beijing for the family focuses on Body Movement awareness and development, through play. The project highlights the balance between architecture and Toy Integration. waa believes all places can be considered playful and our design challenges children to explore unusual spaces. Each site will present new opportunities ad feature devises are designed to have benefits relating learning motor skills, balance/coordination development. In this case emphasis was on 1. Vertical Exploration 2. A hooped climbing Frame 3. Barrel tower.

waa Integrates emotional experiences for users in design. Children are often passive in decision-making scenarios and play is the a period under their own control. waa hopes to create tool to promote learning while allowing narrative creation for children to dream, develop senses relating to equilibrium (balance) and proprioception (awareness). Balance is taken for granted until it is challenged. We hope that activity-based emotional responses to this stageset and the perceptions are harnessed.
A missing element of a child’s development in a modern Chinese city is human-scale spaces for children to explore. Drawing inspiration from the natural world by abstracting superpowers for our new Island character, we create novel play experiences grounded in the observable world.
These play sculptures can augment the client’s suite of conventional games and help strengthen coordination within the child’s development, reducing a child’s overreliance on gizmos and screen time for entertainment.

waa is founded by British registered architects Di Zhang in 2010 and run in collaboration Jack Young. Hold Chinese Architect of Record(Grade JIA) RIBA Chartered & Architecture Society of China member