Play Room

Tucked into a residential neighbourhood is a kid’s activity centre in the heart of Chennai. What was once a traditional courtyard house, over time and generations with many ad-hoc changes including the addition of a roof above an open to sky court, turned the place unfit for domestic use and it ended into a run-down warehouse. This site was offered to us to be transformed into a kid’s activity centre.

Our primary challenge was two-fold. To re-imagine an intuitive place for kids and to establish a spatial narrative that did not exist before. Limitation in the budget pushed us to explore ‘colour’ as organizer and ‘Light’ as material that defines space. These two parameters defined the experience of the project. Graphic illustrations brought focus and purpose to the abstract colours. ‘Dan Flavin’ inspired lighting with standard fluorescent tubes used to articulate the space at night….