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Labyrinth Playground

Labyrinth Playground
© Daniel Mansur

LABYRINTH PLAYGROUND

Vazio S/A

ARCHITECTS
Vazio S/a

CLIENTS
Casacor E Arcelormittal

ARCHITECT IN CHARGE
Carlos M Teixeira

MANUFACTURERS
Abpma, Arcelor Mittal, Tintas Coral

ARCHITECTS
Daila Coutinho, Frederico Almeida

SPONSOR
Arcelormittal E Abpma (Associação Brasileira Dos Produtores De Mogno Africano)

METALWORK
Artfer Serralheria

PHOTOGRAPHS
Daniel Mansur

AREA
16M²

YEAR
2022

LOCATION
Belo Horizonte, Brazil

CATEGORY
Installations & Structures

Text description provided by architect.

The Labyrinth Playground was built in the gardens of Palácio das Mangabeiras, the former residence of the governor of the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil.

Since 2019, the Palace has become a park open to public visitation and shows.

Labyrinth Playground
© Daniel Mansur
Labyrinth Playground
© Daniel Mansur
Labyrinth Playground
© Daniel Mansur

With its many wooden pillars, the project proposes a playful and labyrinthine place.

Unhurried visitors can get lost among its pillars; children (and adults!) can climb the metal grate; and whoever observes it from afar sees an object that is sometimes closed, sometimes open, sometimes half-open.

Labyrinth Playground
© Daniel Mansur
Labyrinth Playground
© Daniel Mansur

But the Labyrinth is not meant to be seen from afar, nor is it a remote sculpture:

it invites everyone to enter it and experience -- immersively -- the textures and the game between regularity and irregularity of its elements.

Labyrinth Playground
© Daniel Mansur
Labyrinth Playground
© Daniel Mansur

It is also an apparatus that explores the problem of joining two typologies into one: the jungle gym and the labyrinth.

These two elements intertwine and create a complex arrangement of stairs, tubes, pillars, posts, and beams.

Labyrinth Playground
© Daniel Mansur
Labyrinth Playground
© Daniel Mansur

Descriptively, the Labyrinth has 55 African mahogany pillars that flank six corridors.

In the north-south direction, they are wide and the passage is easy; in the east-west direction they are narrow and the passage is more difficult.

Above the pillars is the space grid of 1 ¼” metal tubes, which is the jungle gym.

Labyrinth Playground
© Daniel Mansur
Labyrinth Playground
© Daniel Mansur
Labyrinth Playground
© Daniel Mansur

The tubes were painted magenta, which is the complementary color of green (the green of the plants in the park and the Sierra do Curral in the background).

Green and magenta complement each other in the Labyrinth, the color wheel, and nature.

Labyrinth Playground
© Daniel Mansur


Labyrinth Playground
© Daniel Mansur
Labyrinth Playground
© Daniel Mansur


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