From Pause to Play

Maintained in a fixed state for over 100 years, Kingsknowe Golf Course is a landscape on pause.



What does it mean to press play?

A process of liberating and nurturing encourages the landscape, wildlife, and people of Kingsknowe to thrive.

This includes daylighting buried streams, allowing vegetation to colonise, and getting people immersed and excited.

Masterplan of Kingsknowe
Modelling the site through time - from a bare golf course, the grass is allowed to grow and a buried stream is daylit
Continuation of modelling the site through time - vegetation takes over as floodable zones develop, eventually woodland forms
Current conditions - exclusive user group and extensive maintenance
Kingknowe's future - a liberated space

The extensive use of tools and chemicals to preserve the landscape in a synthetic state has harmful ecological repercussions.

Kept for a single purpose and a single user group, the exclusivity of Kingsknowe cannot be justified.

Two sections showing the transformation from golf course to a thriving public park for all

By allowing Kingsknowe to exist in playful flux, it will develop a resilience to ecological and social pressures.

No longer restrained, Kingsknowe can become a space for all.

... so let's play together