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Moubray Street Park Murals & Playground Design
The City of Port Phillip Council has designed a new park at the site of the Moubray Street Pop-up Park, Albert Park. The park serves the local community and provides break-out space for the Albert Park Primary School, adjacent. The park design includes an active recreation zone, new furniture and shelter, grass and planted areas. The recreation zone includes a netball half-court, climbing/hit-up wall and 4 square linework.
The council required a vibrant graphic art piece to be incorporated into the rubber soft fall surface of the recreation zone and to continue in paint on the climbing/ hit-up wall and to the lower section of a timber light pole. Limited elements of the graphic are to continue to areas of surrounding concrete with subtle sandblasting.
A workshop with Albert Park Primary School and the artist was also facilitated to help generate ideas from the student community.
School Mural Workshop
A mural workshop was held with the students from Albert Park Primary School. Students were taken through the creative process of designing a mural. Students engaged with their input through written responses and visual drawings and ideas.
Aspects of the student’s ideas were then taken away and used in the final mural artwork.
Park Design Direction
NATURE / PLAY / IMAGINATION
By using organic and geometric shapes a diverse playful landscape was created. With a focus on garden creatures and plants. The visuals engage the community with the natural aspects of the park area and aim to evoke imagination which is good for play.
The overall design easily translates across the rubber soft fall surface of the recreation zone and continues in paint on the climbing/ hit-up wall and to the lower section of a timber light pole.
The artwork for the climbing wall creates an experience of climbing through an imaginative garden space.
For the rubber section of the park, the design is simplified but uses key shapes to keep consistent with the overall park design.
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