Cheshm Cheran Bazi

The playground sits in a 40 hectare olive orchard next to a rural complex the Iranian design team built in 2017 for visitors and shared farm work. It extends that building’s aim of engaging the landscape on several levels rather than treating it as a backdrop.

Instead of placing a separate object, the design builds on an existing metal grid used to train the orchard trees. Within it, circular platforms are hung from or supported by the grid at different heights, spiralling around tree trunks and rising gradually toward the main building, linking ground, canopy and architecture.

The light modular platforms are made of local metal profiles shaped by rolling, with perforated plastic floors developed with local craftsmen that let light, air and the shadows of leaves pass through. Swings, slides and turning surfaces are spread through the layers, making a vertical playground woven into the farm.