Left Children can play and parents relax in a space that is engineered to escape from crowded city life


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PROJECT 3


Forkid’s Club, Shenzhen, China


Working with the engaging theme of seasonal changes, PANORAMA’s striking work offers a world that challenges children and provides much-needed escapism


WORDS BY EMILY MARTIN


IMAGES BY POPO VISION, GD MEDIA


PANORAMA HAS delivered its latest unique space for family venue Forkids located in Shenzen, China. The design is centred around the need for parents and kids to pull away from the busy city life and enter an imaginative parent-child world, using the concept ‘Valley of Dreams’. The fun and vibrant space features zones, which take their cue from seasonal changes, to include integrated functions of play, learning, dining, and socialising to transport children from the grind of city life to wonder of make believe.


Situated in Shenzhen Nanshan Park, its Forkids project utilises the double height space with mezzanine levels to create vertical extension and spatial excitement for kid’s self- exploration. The design scheme uses curves to break the rigidity of the building periphery boundary and seamlessly connect all activity zones situated at the three different levels. The overall design language fills this imaginative landscape with colour, shape, scale and tactility which fulfil functional and emotional requirements of a play-scape and give memorable experience for kids and adults alike. Taking a walk through this abstract landscape and you’ll enter the first zone, or ‘valley’, called Spring Valley. The green- coloured space pivots around the idea of socialising including a family café, with its ‘undulated hills depicting the beauty of spring season’. A giant tree-like observatory tower gives a panoramic view of the whole space. Different activities including children’s birthday parties and social events can be held. Full- height greenery wall completes the leisure experience in this double volume space. The second zone in yellow, known as ‘Summer Beach’, is a play-scape composed of rubber, plastic and rope for a multi-tactile experience. There is a beach-like open area with ball pit, climbing ropes and array of mezzanine levels connected with cocoon bridges.


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