translucent drapes encircle forest floor for nami nami’s concéntrico installation in spain

nami nami studio’s wildlings encourages urban, elemental play

At the 2025 edition of the Concéntrico festival in Spain, Nami nami studio presents Wildlings, a spatial installation that reconsiders how urban environments can host instinctive, tactile forms of play. Installed within a quiet plaza, the work forms a sensory-rich playground as it loosely defines a circular zone treated as a mutable forest bed filled with pine cones, pebbles, soil, and branches. The materials are left only casually arranged to foreground their sensory and spatial properties as they elementally ground the structure in the urban setting, and encourage active engagement for rearrangement through touch and motion.

Architect Klára Koldová and designer Eduard Herrmann articulate the perimeter through a lightweight frame constructed from aluminum rods and telescopic fishing poles, anchored by eight large stones collected from the surrounding landscape. A translucent fabric shroud encircles the site, filtering light and air as it ripples with the wind, allowing gentle glimpses through.

all images by Vojtěch Veškrna

a sensory-rich playground at Concéntrico in Logroño, spain

Each year, Concéntrico invites architects and designers to rethink the public realm through temporary architectural gestures in Logroño. For Czech practice Nami nami studio, whose work under the Nami Play label has recently focused on developing new typologies for exploratory play, the intervention continues an evolving inquiry into how spatial design can supportthe intervention continues an evolving inquiry into how spatial design can support early cognitive and emotional development without overdetermining it. cognitive and emotional development without overdetermining it. Wildlings defines a boundary condition that is spatially legible but materially open for this playground which enables informal and spontaneous exploration to unfold. The structure can be assembled and disassembled quickly, and the apparent fragility of its structure reinforces its responsiveness to context.

The installation also stems from the studio’s broader interest in how sensory experience can shape our understanding of space. They frame play as a form embodied research, where the act of engaging with natural materials becomes a way to explore atmosphere, texture, and one’s orientation within the environment. The design then creates conditions that support many forms of interaction and raw encounters; someone might sit quietly on a cool stone, or walk barefoot across the soil, or rearrange branches into new patterns. Each encounter remains open-ended, shaped by presence and attention in the moment.

Nami nami studio presents Wildling at Concéntrico