Landscape design for children's play : urban park in Lucknow

Abstract

As they are the sensitive users of the society, relation between the children with its environment in relation to play is an important aspect. Importance of the play for the child’s life is the medium of behavior to develop intellectually and physically. There are many researches done on the child psychology, and importance of play in their life. Winnicott, Piaget, Moore are the some scientist which has done research on the child play. Now-a-days, children are more involved into indoor and video games, etc. because of lack of interactive open spaces, security point of view and lifestyle of people presently. The studies have shown that because of their less interaction with nature, they get deficiencies and less knowledge of nature and their surroundings. As the landscape plays an important role in the study explores the criteria for selecting the equipment and requirement for child at the particular ages and accordingly play type for them. This study shows the requirement of the child play area where they can explore and develop. This tells about the place/areas of where they can develop and use this type of skill. The methodology involves the interviewing the users and the people relating to the child and the children’s play, studying the literature and observations of the studies which leads to the inferences of the studies. The inferences are according to study of the design in terms of climate, surroundings, vegetation, topography, etc. These inferences are helpful for achieving the required landscape design results with plantation, material and lighting plan with sections and views.