leisurator proposes an interactive athletics surface. the design proposal by marco pastore, valentina sabatelli and nilufer kozikoglu, with the consultancy of arup and buro happold, for an adaptive, interactive, sport fields on the upper podium level of london's barbican centre combines off-line activities spaces with an on-line programmable, interface that allows users to schedule and plan events at the site. the book-lenght monograph documents all stages of the project design and development, including the combination of linked performative physical study models, prototypes, scripted IK digital models, and project drawings and images.
leisurator provides a reconfigurable field that engenders a variety of leisure, sport and improvisational activities. this field is programmed with a set of variable configurations, the transformations of which offer emergent conditions suggestive of alternate social organization and cultural dimensions of game-like activities. borrowing the urban sensibility of skateboarding culture, the design of the structure is informed by the series of temporal sessions, which by repetition over time will provide specific localization. the field structure will respond in two ways to the users. first, the kinetic mechanism will adapt to the existing programs considered as a timeline with environmental parameters. this pre-defines numerous configurations which are inscribed as latent performativities of the surface. secondly, the adjacencies and relationship in each of the configurations is to catalyze new way of using surfaces, walls and edges of the field, providing both defined boundaries for existing leisure activities (e.g., tennis, jogging, playground), surfaces for non-formalized games (e.g., skating, casual play, etc.), and zones which allow the occupation of space in a game-like manner.
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