The project “Playscape” is a children’s play and learn intervention programmed in the Old Stock Exchange building in Mahurat pol in chowk in old city. This building is an old colonial structure with various styles is marked as a heritage building. The building walls have an ornate craving in Dhangadhra stone which has a front porch with craved timber doors, framed by semicircular arches and a s segmented arch in the center. The building currently is in not in use, is severely damaged, and is encroached at the rear end. Interior spaces have an array of issues from chipping to broken windows and unsightly elements lying around.
The project has 3 main design intervention.

- Clearing the extensions on east which have be added later to create a public corridor to Queens tomb and to open the east façade to its original form.
- Refurbishing the dilapidated elements in the building skin and roof.
- And the final design, is adding new structural elements in interior to create a playscape keeping intact the building skin.

Elaborating the design, the playscapes are created using steel grid structure which connects different floors of original structure. Each floor plates are made up of wood interspersed with coloured glass. Various activities of play are designed at different floors using interactive games.

The intervention is an insert which opens the building to all floors and connects to the urban street connecting it to local public without touching the building’s fascade to perceive its beauty, grandeur and visual enhancement of its architectural order. The new steel grid structure with wooden floor plates and colored glass allows children to wander, to hear one’s voice and see from across and above. It allows to hop around through different levels of floors with play elements such as nets, slides and swings