The site is on private land, a clearing in the woods at the foot of a slope. Left abandoned on the site is an old wooden house, built in three sections, pitched roof at each end and a flat roof in the middle. The program is: to make a playing field for children.

The proposal is to build an amphitheater, using the old house as a building-block. The end-section of the house, on each side, is replicated; the houses are formed into an oval; on one side each successive house leans further back, on the other side each successive house tilts further forward, gradually sinking into the ground. The sinking houses are climbed over; they can be used as spectators' seats, around the playing field, or they can be used as part of the playing field, as playground equipment. The old house at the end is lit from inside, making a light-source for the playing field; a clock is set down, horizontally, on the flat roof, a mirror tilted above it: the time can be read in the mirror, but the hands of the clock are moving backwards -- since this is a place for children, time can't go forward, time turns back to childhood.