LIKEarchitects is a Porto based architecture studio known for its experimental, provocative and innovative nature. playLAND is a set of three bouncy and colorful spatial interventions geared for children in the public space of Paredes de Coura, that make a human scale lego out of beach buoys. Removed from the usual seaside context and used in three colors – green, orange and pink – the beach buoy serve as the modular construction element, allowing the creation of a light and colorful world built with objects belonging to another place.
Being a child object, designed for children to play quietly in the sea or in the pool, the beach float is naturally a colorful and very appealing object. Moreover, by the virtue of being inflatable, it quickly becomes very bulky, but always lightweight and easy to handle, facilitating large scale constructions.
