A Labyrinth Landscape
Hans Lyngsgård
This labyrinth, or you may call it a maze, is part of a playground at an institution for physically and mentally handicapped children. The institution already had a snouzel-house where the childrens' different senses could be trained, and they wanted an outdoor landscape where the children, among other things, could develop their sense of space. Something like a labyrinth.
By intuition and a desire to draw figure-of-eight lines, I produced the drawing of this special labyrinth or maze. It has no centre, you can choose different paths and walk in changing spaces.
  plan of the SOLBO labyrinth
Most of the labyrinth was made by an international youth camp in the summer holidays of 1992. It is constructed using old telephone poles cut into different sizes. The entrances are marked with portals made of poles and well-rings. The paths are 100-110 cm wide, which allows access for children in wheelchairs. A lot of the removed soil is placed as slopes around the labyrinth, and all over are now planted trees and bushes. In the course of time, the labyrinth will be a 'natural' part of the landscape.
  SOLBO, Resenbro, Silkeborg, Denmark. Built 1992. Photo by Hans Lyngsgård
Hans Lyngsgård, Ry, Denmark