Completed 2022

Design Team: Andrew Wei, Amir Zarei, Sim Agci, Josh Hakiman, Krishna Sailaja, Jesus Sanchez, Nick Beard, Anisha Datta

Fabrication by Building Brown Workshop for KIPP One Primary Elementary School

This project was part of an advanced seminar in Fabrication and Participatory Design at the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana. The built play structure was initially exhibited at Design Museum of Chicago for an initial public debut. After the exhibition, the structure was fine-tuned in response to feedback, re-located, and permanently installed at an elementary school in Chicago’s Humboldt Park neighborhood. The play structure, entitled LÏFT, provides an informal sanctuary for small groups of elementary school students to take a break from the hustle and bustle of everyday life, to change their physical vantage points, and to engage physical play to reset their social and emotional energies.