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SEA HORSE

A water-park shaped as a seahorse for Chongqing

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Oct

2019

Chongqing

Asia/Shanghai

Chinese

Population: 15 Million18 million in 2025

GDP: 2.04 6 %

BigMac: 2.74 us dollars

Sea Horse
Chongqing | China

Seahorse is a water park designed for the public space of a new residential area in Chongqing (China).

The surrounding public areas count with a swimming pool as well, which is complemented with this water playscape for kids, with the aim of fostering entertainment & social interactions among kids and adults alike.

Seahorse Video

Following with the themed series of Horse playgrounds from our client, they commissioned us this new playscape with the particular request that this one had to include water features in it.

©Amey Kandalgaonkar

When relating the Horse theme park and the water features, it was obvious for us that the twist of this project had to be a Sea Horse approach, the Horse of the water realm.

©Amey Kandalgaonkar

Therefore, the water park features a main sunken wet area in the shape of a Sea Horse, which can be understood not only from a pedestrian point of view within the playscape, but also from all the surrounding residential towers.

©Amey Kandalgaonkar

As main wet area, the Sea Horse sunken platform hosts the big majority of water features, customized in the same color palette, and sprinkling water towards the interior of that sunken wet platform.

©Amey Kandalgaonkar

The surrounding areas of the Sea Horse are treated in a contrasting striped color palette, defining a dry play area which contains dry playful features in order to make the playscape usable & playable also during winter months.

©Amey Kandalgaonkar

Those dry playful features are designed in a circular shape, mimicking water ripples of activity.

©Amey Kandalgaonkar

The resulting image is a colorful and eye-catching playscape, which includes playing features for kids as well as shaded seating features for adults, visible from all the residential towers surrounding the central public space.

©Amey Kandalgaonkar

CREDITS:

Project Name: Seahorse
Design: 100architects (Shanghai)
Design Team: Marcial Jesús, Javier González, Mónica Páez, Lara Broglio, Gong Xun.
Client: Dongyuan Dichan
Area: 650 m2
Completion: September 2019
Location: Chongqing, China
Photography: Amey Kandalgaonkar

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Seahorse

It is essentially a waterpark shaped as a seahorse located in Chongqing downtown. It includes many interesting water features as well as a few seating areas adults and playing objects for kids.

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Seahorse is a water park designed for the public space of a new residential area in Chongqing (China).

It is a multi functional space intended for entertainment.
Seating features, water play equipment, greenery, grand stand object, shading features and more.

The communal public areas of the compound count with a swimming pool area for residents, which is complemented with this water playscape for kids, with the aim of fostering entertainment & social interactions among resident kids.

Following with the themed series of Horse playgrounds from our client, they commissioned us this new playscape with the particular request that this one had to include water features in it.

When relating the Horse theme park and the water features, it was obvious for us that the twist of this project had to be a Sea Horse approach, the Horse of the water realm.

As main wet area, the Sea Horse sunken platform hosts the big majority of water features, customized in the same color palette, and sprinkling water towards the interior of that sunken wet platform.

Those dry playful features are designed in a circular shape, mimicking water ripples of activity.

As main wet area, the Sea Horse sunken platform hosts the big majority of water features, customized in the same color palette, and sprinkling water towards the interior of that sunken wet platform.

When relating the Horse theme park and the water features, it was obvious for us that the twist of this project had to be a Sea Horse approach, the Horse of the water realm.

Following with the themed series of Horse playgrounds from our client, they commissioned us this new playscape with the particular request that this one had to include water features in it.

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