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Outdoor flooring David Watson
"The people I have met from the hospital have been overwhelmingly engaging with the project. From my point of view it is a wonderful opportunity to think like a child again, and play with ideas and materials that connect with the hospital and its community."
David’s scheme of inlays and bollards can be found in and near the tarmac paths which lead the way to the new Children’s Centre. They are based on the experience of walking his own children to school. “Children generate games around what is already there, like patterns in the pavement. We would use the games as a distraction, and to make the journey slow or quick.”
The glass mini-feet and CD bollards are created from waste bottle glass and CDs donated by hospital staff, and plastic inlays recycled from industrially sourced plastic bread board offcuts. The feet were from a print of Jim’s foot (a patient at the Children’s Centre).
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site analysis
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detail of design for extended routes
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detail of recycled glass pickup markers
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designs for CD stacks: one with solar light, one with hook
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installed bollards
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Photos: Martin Avery
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