Língua de Gato

This project was realized during a Sustainable Design Workshop, in groups of 3 students. It was integrated in a biggerportuguese project which is still running today.

The main objective was to renew the northen coast beaches of the country,

starting from the quality of the water and ending with new designed structures like

restaurants, life guard towers, rest rooms,...Our job was was to think about children

and family distractions during the Summer season, and we were asked to design “playgrounds in the beach”. As nowadays all playgrounds have specific games to play, because the structures are very conditioning, we tried to innovate the concept of a playground and turn it into an organic form based on a typical portuguese biscuit called “língua de gato” (cat’s tongue). This combination of the same form in different positions is the perfect way to have various kinds of structures to play, that wouldn’t restrict the imagination. The kids can imagine their own games and stories and all the family can play.