Jul 30, 2014 6:30 AM

Gallery: Here's How You Turn a Parking Garage Into a Great Playground

Illustration: Jaja Architects
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This parking garage design, by Jaja Architects, is part playground, part gym, part Hanging Gardens of Babylon.
Illustration: Jaja Architects
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To prep for an expected growth in the urban population, the city of Copenhagen is developing two new compact living centers: Orestad and Nordhavn.

Illustration: Jaja Architects
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Along with new parks, apartments, and offices, Nordhavn will also be home to the Park 'n' Play garage.
Illustration: Jaja Architects
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Designed by Jaja Architects, the Park 'n' Play concept turns a garage into a useful and attractive site. To attract people to the building, it has a set of staircases that snake up the garage’s exterior, and can be seen from blocks away.

Illustration: Jaja Architects
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The main event—the playground—is on the roof. Jaja's design encourages working out with graphics for Crossfit-like routines.
Illustration: Jaja Architects
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The stairs were inspired by the zig-zagging escalators on the exterior of the Centre Pompidou in Paris, designed by Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers.

Illustration: Jaja Architects
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To beautify the building, Jaja included plant boxes along the exterior. The north, south, east, and west-facing walls all have a different species of climbing greenery, to optimize growth in different amount of light.

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