Scrapped Ambulance Repurposed as Children’s Playground for Hospital in Malawi

Words // Staff Designboom

Peter Meijer, managing director of Sakaramenta, has created a kids’ playground on the site of a local hospital in Malawi. The simply intervention considers its site, introducing a scrapped ambulance, repurposing it as a playground clubhouse, with an integrated – where children patients (and grown-ups) can occupy their time.

taking a ride…

the interior of the ambulance has been gutted and furnished with bench seating for children to hangout

a patient makes some noise on the playground by blowing a built-in horn

opening ceremony of the playground inaugurated by the hospital’s patients

the scrapped ambulance used for constructing the playspace

rendering design of ambulance playground idea