Acar, 2015
The purpose of landscape design is to design comfortable spaces that meet people’s needs and demands in open spaces. Depending on the users and activities, the forms and capacities of these spaces and equipment vary. These spaces where such activities will take place are designed according to such criteria as design concept, activity type, the location of the area to be designed etc. In this study, the spaces are designed based on the activity type.
For this purpose, a module was chosen based on activity type, and spaces were created by bringing several of this module together in different sizes and directions. This method was tested in a playground design study in the Child, Play and Design course at the Department of Landscape Architecture, Karadeniz Technical University, because playground design is one of the exciting fields of the study of landscape architecture. Additionally, unlike adults, children perceive the functional features of the environment; in otherwords, they perceive the opportunities that the elements in the environment offer. The affordances offered by the modules provide a functional use of the space. Therefore, in this method, modules were determined according to affordances. Eventually, the resulting design products showed that this approach is assessable in the open space design.
