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I have always been intrigued by Chinese characters (the
writing, not Bruce Lee). They look like ladders, slides, and
things to swing on, basically literary monkey bars. My
thought is to build some of these large enough to have the
possibility of being able to climb on them. Certainly some
of
the structure will be stable, solid metal while other
parts might be ropes, chains or movable wooden parts that
would still depict the character represented.
Also, they can be arranged so those who can read Chinese
will be able to read the playground equipment. They might
tell a story, or vandals might rearrange them to say
something nasty.
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Interesting, what would they say? |
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Bun if they say stuff like "Get off me you lousy kids!"
or something funny like that. [+] |
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Are they not Kanji characters? (too lazy to look up) |
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They should definetly spell out philosophical
warning messages: "Child who climbs here and
breaks leg should be more respectful of verbs" |
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[text keeps going in double spaced] why ??? |
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Kanji is Japanese, Hanzi is Chinese. |
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My text does the double spacing also… |
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If you were REALLY careful about the characters you chose,
you could have the playground tell a story, as the various
mobile parts attain different positions.
If you were ridiculously careful, it could say different things
from different viewing directions. |
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Many Chinese appear to have such a fetish for their characters, this is likely to already exist. The question is whether the character for "water" would double as a fluid large-scale slide, etc. etc. |
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[neut] love the concept of viewing it from
different angles to see different results. |
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[4and20] I did my best research and did not find
anything that exists like this but certainly there
can be some thing over in China that would never
be on the Internet. |
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I think it's doable - "water" makes a triple slide, you can go
straight down the middle or come in, turn and go out from
the right or left. "Tree" doesn't have a lot of foot holds, but
you can sit on the branches once you do get up. "Rain" makes
a pretty cool umbrella, "eye" you can certainly look out of;
"dirt" looks like it should be sticking up out of a cemetery. |
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"Lightning" would even look pretty convincing harboring a Van
de Graff generator. |
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Cool ideas [Lurch]! Love them all but lightning is
absolutely the best. |
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