Amusement parks are classic third places: neither home nor workplace. They are open, collective spaces where strangers and neighbours meet, share experience, and briefly become a community. In small and large cities alike, such parks were always among the few places where informal, egalitarian social contact was possible. A ride was not just entertainment: it was a shared ritual, a moment of collective joy, a pause in the rhythm of daily life.

Today, almost none of these objects, created in the early 1990s, remain in working condition. The rides stand still, their mechanisms frozen.

The aesthetics here derive from function. The beauty of line and form was born from engineering logic — the same logic that resonated with the Constructivists of the early 20th century. The same principles survived in the mechanical structures of a bygone era.

The square format gathers these structures into restrained graphic compositions, where the main subject is pure geometry: intersecting forms, mechanical joints, the rhythm of lines. What was once movement has become form.

This project is an opportunity to look closely and record what has not yet disappeared completely — and to ask what we lose when third places fall silent. These rides are not just obsolete machines. They are the visible traces of an idea of collective urban life.