12-Feet Apart
Houston, Texas
Oct 2020
One of eight seesaws photographed two years after project launch, having been relocated by annonymous students
Project Description
In our publicly voted winning proposal titled Twelve Feet Apart, we re-imagined the playful structure of the seesaw to become a new tool for physical interaction. With a seesaw, immediate action response and reaction to movement bring the intimacy and playfulness of human interaction back to our community enduring a pandemic. The new 8-seesaw playground accomplishes that while maintaining CDC guidelines. The designed structure, as advertised by the project title, keeps users 12 feet apart to create a landscape that induces all who walk past to participate in a new method of social gathering safely and engagingly.
Captions
115: Exploded axonometric of components designed around common 2x4 planks
125: Signage created for the project launch, indicating how to safely interact with the seesaws during the pandemic
133: Photo published on the cover of Rice Magazine, courtesy of Jeff Fitlow
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