'Individually they are ugly. But in agglomeration they are beautiful,' says Andrew Freear, director of Auburn University's Rural Studio. Freear is referring to the galvanized steel drums making up the design-build studio's latest intervention at Lions Park in Greensboro, Alabama.
Completed in September, the 'playscape,' which replaces a much-vandalized playground, is the fifth element designed and constructed at Lions Park by Rural Studio students. Since 2007, successive thesis classes have built baseball fields, bathrooms, a skate park, and a concession stand in the 40-acre park.
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