Build an idea
Worktables introduce materials and an achievable family challenge. Brick arches frame the test channel, making the next action visible.
Attractions & Entertainment / Concept study
The Inventors’ Harbour
Create attractions where visitors help make the experience, rather than simply watch it.
Discover the conceptLEGO / Independent concept study
A harbour for ideas made together.
The Inventors’ Harbour turns a waterfront warehouse into a family discovery destination. A harbour is a place where things are assembled, tested and sent into the world; that sequence becomes the visitor journey. Recognisable brick-like modules create terraces, thresholds and building stations, while a central crane-shaped landmark gives the space a memorable orientation point. Families can build small boats, test their behaviour in a controlled water channel and revise their ideas. Caregiver seating and an overlooking gallery make watching part of participation. Quiet building tables offer a calmer alternative to the active test area. The architecture carries the theme even when an activity is closed, avoiding an attraction that becomes an empty room between sessions. Cadimore would develop the attraction proposition, spatial story, age-aware journey and programme mix, with operators and technical specialists validating play, water, access and staffing. Changing challenges and community build days would renew the content within a consistent world. The intended memory is not only ‘I saw something remarkable’, but ‘we made something together’.
The visitor journey
Experience the idea.
Test the harbour
A supervised channel lets visitors compare their small boat designs. An overlooking terrace shows the connection between making and movement.
Launch another possibility
A shared display celebrates experiments and invites a revised attempt. A clear loop returns to the building stations, supporting repeat play.
Six perspectives of one place
Explore the space.
One place. Different perspectives.
A story in every view.
Attractions & Entertainment · LEGO concept
A harbour for ideas made together.
Recognisable interlocking forms become places to build, test and try again. The crane landmark connects a family’s experiment at the table with the discovery of how its handmade boat behaves on the water.
The Inventors’ Harbour
The whole place
Create attractions where visitors help make the experience, rather than simply watch it.
The Inventors’ Harbour
How the space connects
Recognisable interlocking forms become places to build, test and try again. The crane landmark connects a family’s experiment at the table with the discovery of how its handmade boat behaves on the water.
The Inventors’ Harbour
The first encounter
Worktables introduce materials and an achievable family challenge.
The Inventors’ Harbour
Life within the place
Build a boat, test it, change it and launch another possibility together.
The Inventors’ Harbour
The material story
Hands build and launch a small boat together: a simple experiment turns play into discovery.
The Inventors’ Harbour
A different perspective
A shared display celebrates experiments and invites a revised attempt.
All 6 views of The Inventors’ Harbour, together.
Scroll, swipe or use the arrows · Unbuilt, uncommissioned concept imagery.
Research & interpretation
Learn from remarkable places.
Original unbuilt Cadimore concept. LEGO is an illustrative brand context; this is not commissioned work or an affiliated project. Spatial arrangements are conceptual and subject to site, operator and technical development.
FORREC · LEGOLAND Korea Resort
A recognisable brand world can connect masterplanning, themed environments and visitor participation.
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