Pink foam blocks flip cramped church room right into a play house for teenagers

PRTZN Structure has used upholstered foam blocks to rework a tiny room in a Hungarian church right into a kids’s playroom.

Commissioned by Sacred Coronary heart Jesuit Church in Budapest, the room is used as an area for kids to play throughout holy mass companies.

Measuring simply 12 sq. metres, the slim house is crammed wall-to-wall with modular foam blocks the place the kids can climb, sit and retailer their toys.

The room is situated on the church’s southern aisle and previously served as only a storage space. It featured a excessive vaulted ceiling, black granite cladding and an uneven ground.

Budapest-based observe PRTZN Structure was tasked with reworking the unwelcoming room right into a child-friendly space that respects the church’s present structure, lending the undertaking its identify of Play in Sacral Areas.

“After we got here into contact with the management of the church in 2018, the house had already been functioning as a playroom for one 12 months, although it was furnished in fairly an ad-hoc approach with outdated, worn-out items of furnishings,” mentioned Péter Müllner, who based the observe in 2013 with Gergely Hory and Zoltán Main.

“The management commissioned us to boost the standard of this house as a way to serve the wants of its customers higher, and adapt it to the historic architectural atmosphere of the church which opened in 1909.”

The observe outlined three key points that wanted to be resolved. The primary and biggest problem was the room’s slim dimensions, whereas the second fear was that the prevailing cement tile ground didn’t present sufficient warmth and luxury for a playroom.

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The third difficulty involved the connection between the constructing and the furnishings throughout the house – the studio felt that common furnishings would really feel out-of-scale in an inside with such a excessive vaulted ceiling and slim plan.

A modular foam “panorama” that covers the room’s whole ground was created. Upholstered in numerous tones of pink cloth, the squishy blocks could be stacked into totally different compositions to function each seating and storage, or create a steady flat floor the place the kids can transfer freely.

“The intervention offered not solely a brand new elevated ground degree for teenagers to play, however the set up itself turned a toy as properly,” mentioned the observe. “On the identical time, the inside of the church remained untouched.”

The house is illuminated by round lamps crafted from powder-coated aluminium sheets.

“We wished to create oblique lighting for this house, with lamps gently mixing into the prevailing architectural atmosphere,” the studio added.

“We additionally wished to accommodate the type of the lamps with the curved geometry of the vaulted ceiling, which characterize monumentality.”

PRTZN Structure shouldn’t be the primary studio to create a kids’s play space in an unorthodox constructing. In 2016 architect Yasutaka Yoshimura accomplished a kindergarten on the location of a disused warehouse in Japan.

It encompasses a tent-like construction wrapped in a translucent membrane that recollects the form of the unique constructing.