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the park. Adam and his team coordinated input sessions with children, ages 2 through 12-years-old, to learn what kind of park they wanted. The kids drew their dream playground or built it with blocks and paper. Then the design team brought their wishes to life, mixing in the safety codes and rules.
THE IDEA WAS TO NOT JUST BUILD A CLASSIC PLAYGROUND, BUT A GARDEN WHERE THEY CAN PLAY THE WAY THEY WANT TO. THEY WANT TO CLIMB, HIDE, RUN, AND EXPLORE
AERIAL VIEW OF THE CHILDREN’S ALLIANCE PARK
Safe playgrounds are a successful combination of design, materials selection, and maintenance, with the ultimate goal of protecting children from severe injury. Playground safety inspectors look for surfacing material condition, equipment damage and layout (splinters on wood posts for example), sharp corners and edges, fall heights, and openings that could entrap a child. “We monitor things like safety mulch around a swing,” says Adam. “The depth of safety mulch has a strong relationship to how much impact it can absorb from a kid falling. There could be 12
PLAY AREA FEATURING THE WIDE SLIDE
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Hills that feature tunnels to play in Another view of park A climbable wall mural Concrete salamander sculpture
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