Industrial Stylistics as a Figurative Component of the Playground Facilities

Abstract

The article traces the manifestation of the industrial style, which appeared mainly in interior projects at the end of the 20th century, in objects of environmental design of urbanized spaces. The main line of research focuses on the possibility of using industrial style in designing objects for a children’s playing environment, with the aim of resolving or compensating for the progressive unification of playing equipment in a modern city. The experimental part of the research is represented by the project proposal - a play object for playgrounds “Degrees” and a game area “Skeleton” made in the industrial style. The results of the study showed that the imaginative solution of such objects of the children’s playing environment has a unique and multi-faceted associative line that allows to stimulate children’s imagination, as well as solve the problem of excessive uniformity of the environment. The stylistic originality of such objects has a semantic meaning not only for the children’s playing environment, but also for the urban environment as a whole, which demonstrates the value of including such objects in the existing urban environment.