Ruin

Frame · Built spaces spatial

What once stood stands no more – decay as a space where past and present overlap.

Design question – Your play space is a ruin. What was here before – and what hides in the rubble? Is the ruin a place of grief or of treasures?

Reference example – Horizon Zero Dawn: the ruins of a lost world, overgrown and full of stories. Lost Ruins of Arnak: temple remains on an island, explored piece by piece.

Associations

• Typical Activities – Exploring, Excavating, Salvaging, Discovering

Coherence

Mechanisms: Exploration (mapping the decay), Hazard (unstable structures), Hidden Treasure, Archaeology. Activities: Exploring, Excavating, Salvaging, Discovering. Ludic Organisational Structures: spatial order (fragmented), developmental order (inverted: regression).