{"id":8621,"date":"2026-05-29T10:30:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T10:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angesfinanciers.org\/?p=8621"},"modified":"2026-05-29T15:06:02","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T15:06:02","slug":"woodland-playscape-in-gloucestershire-crafted-from-surrounding-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/angesfinanciers.org\/index.php\/2026\/05\/29\/woodland-playscape-in-gloucestershire-crafted-from-surrounding-trees\/","title":{"rendered":"Woodland playscape in Gloucestershire crafted from surrounding trees"},"content":{"rendered":"
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UK architecture firms Pearce+<\/a>, Invisible Studio<\/a> and Lean Structures have completed the Silk Wood Playscape in Gloucestershire, using oak<\/a> from the surrounding forest to create “informal, unprogrammed” play structures<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Located within Westonbirt Arboretum’s ancient Silk Wood, the playscape occupies a hollow that was once a stone quarry, taking advantage of its gradually sloping topography.<\/p>\n

Pearce+<\/a>, Invisible Studio<\/a> and Lean Structures<\/a> wanted the design to feel like a natural extension of the woodland, combining strategically placed logs with several structures built using green oak from the surrounding arboretum.<\/p>\n

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Silk Wood Playscape is made from trees from its surroundings<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“The existing play provision sits within the formal arboretum and is more conventional in nature, using bought-in timber play equipment that could belong to many woodland settings,” Pearce+ founder Owen Pearce told Dezeen.<\/p>\n

“For Silk Wood, we wanted to create something much more specific to Westonbirt: an informal, unprogrammed playscape that felt closer to the experience of discovering a fallen tree in a forest as a child, and imagining it as anything you wanted it to be,” he added.<\/p>\n

“The concept was about open-ended play, encouraging visitors to climb, balance, hide, explore and invent their own games, rather than prescribing a fixed route or activity.”<\/p>\n

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It features a lookout tower shaped like a cone<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Silk Wood Playscape combines a series of purpose-built structures with log bridges, scrambles and a hollow-trunk slide, positioned to mimic trees that might have fallen naturally.<\/p>\n

In the centre of the site is a series of curved “hide-and-seek walls” made from rows of vertical timber fins with their rough bark-covered edges left intact.<\/p>\n