Client: Crown Estate
Agency: Macgregor Smith
Smith and Lewarne were commissioned by The Crown Estate and Macgregor Smith to work on the UK’s first vertical activity wall. The large scale outdoor installation at Fosse Park in Leicester included a graphic wall, a rubber floor design and a 15 metre window design for the UK’s first vertical children’s activity area. The colourful installation welcomes children and adults to the space by filling the area with positivity in the use of local cultural references and a warm and upbeat colour palette.
Commissioned by the Crown Estate, the brief was to bring some much-needed life and excitement for young people to the otherwise exclusively retail space of the new Fosse Park shopping centre in Leicester.
The designs had to be informed by the local area, in particular the wildlife and cultural history. In addition to our own research series of workshops were organised with two local school and an older peoples' social group. The intention of the workshops were to explore these themes in different ways with people who had grown up in the area.
A Smith and Lewarne project