Gallery: Here's How You Turn a Parking Garage Into a Great Playground

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    Illustration: Jaja Architects
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    JAJA-PARKING-Rooftop-Activity

    This parking garage design, by Jaja Architects, is part playground, part gym, part Hanging Gardens of Babylon.
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    Illustration: Jaja Architects
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    To prep for an expected growth in the urban population, the city of Copenhagen is developing two new compact living centers: Orestad and Nordhavn.
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    Illustration: Jaja Architects
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    Along with new parks, apartments, and offices, Nordhavn will also be home to the Park 'n' Play garage.
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    Illustration: Jaja Architects
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    JAJA-PARKING-Elevation

    Designed by Jaja Architects, the Park 'n' Play concept turns a garage into a useful and attractive site. To attract people to the building, it has a set of staircases that snake up the garage’s exterior, and can be seen from blocks away.
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    Illustration: Jaja Architects
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    The main event—the playground—is on the roof. Jaja's design encourages working out with graphics for Crossfit-like routines.
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    Illustration: Jaja Architects
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    JAJA-PARKING-Elevation-22

    The stairs were inspired by the zig-zagging escalators on the exterior of the Centre Pompidou in Paris, designed by Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers.
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    Illustration: Jaja Architects
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    JAJA-PARKING-Elevation-2

    To beautify the building, Jaja included plant boxes along the exterior. The north, south, east, and west-facing walls all have a different species of climbing greenery, to optimize growth in different amount of light.
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