Public School 665
Bath Beach, Brooklyn, New York – USA
New York City – USA
Webnet on the catwalk in Manhattan
The School prides itself on its motivation to nurture its students in an atmosphere of challenging learning. While the objectives of learning are accommodated by the architecture, their challenge was to provide enough playground space for the school children without having sufficient ground space to accommodate that need.
The challenge was met by the architectural choice to employ a third story rooftop playground enclosure encased in wire mesh Webnet. The Webnet enclosure provides both a horizontal and overhead barrier against the loss of tossed, hit or kicked balls that are struck with sufficient force to lose them over the fence of a ground-based playground.
The general applications of rooftop playground enclosures, such as that employed at PS 163, can mount seamlessly on the existing architecture of the building, where at PS 163, the second story exterior wall of two corners and three walls of the building extended up about four feet, forming a solid wall for the playground.
The project at PS 163 is a brilliant example of safe, functional and architecturally pleasing wire mesh rooftop playground enclosures.
Jakob Products
- WEBNET rope ø 2 mm, mesh 60 mm
Applications
Sports and fun
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