Kid's playground "Come back to nature"

Kid’s playground

Come back to nature A design for little human

Contents Introduction Design brief Mountain adventure project

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Research 5 common playground surface material 5 playground activites that help child’s developtment Landscape Architecture’s construction Case study

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Design proposal Concept General master plan Construction details Section 1: Hardscape Section 2: Softscape

Reference

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Access Potential access via vehicle transport and pedestrian from these public building near by

introduction The site is chosen from the children adventure zone in the co-lab project. This is the second stage of “Mountain adventure� project providing an opportunity to redefine the children area and geting close to the detail development.

Design Brief: This development aims to bring the general concept into more specific that is providing a place for neighbours especially children and families getting close to nature through passive activities (see, smell, hear) to active activities (physical, touching, playing).

This area is also design for families going out and spending time together.

Note: 1. On the peak 2. Valley 3. Vertical faces 4. Central space 5. Sitting zone 6. River beach 7. Summit 8. Rolling hill 9. Children advanture

Site choosen

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Terrain

Potential view from secret garden

Mountain Adventure, scale 1/500 @ A1 5

Research “Children need the opportunity to explore their neighbourhoods, to dream up their next adventure, to build dens, to feel free in nature, to overcome physical and emotional challenges. It’s vital that the cities we build give children a chance to do these things, or else we all lose out.”

- Tim Jarvis AM, Arup consultant, adventuer, environmental scientist

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5 common Playground surface material Solid Rubber Surface

“Pour - in -Place”

it’s not only the safest, but it requires the least amount of maintenance. Solid rubber surfaces come in two forms: “Pourin-Place” which is poured over a sub-base and the end product is a smooth, cushioned surface that comes in varying color options and rubber tiles that fit together to make one solid surface.

These are popular options because they are slip resistant, allowing easy ADA access for wheelchairs and strollers.

Drawback: The solid rubber surface material is one of the most expensive options in playground safety surfacing.

Rubber tiles

Artificial Grass or Turf Artificial Grass is a slightly less expensive alternative to a solid rubber surface. It’s also a low-maintenance and an ADA wheelchair accessible surface. It will require an occasional rinse-off but water drains well from this surface, making cleaning up a breeze.

The hard, plastic green turf of past decades has been replaced with softer, real-texture options.

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Play Sand and Pea Gravel Sand and pea gravel are afforable playground cover. These materials do not really provide ADA accessibility.

In order to ensure these materials provide any type of fall protection, the recommendation is to have at least twelve inch depth at all times.

Drawback: Some sand can contain harmful materials, in order to avoid this, make sure that you buy a sand specifically made for playgrounds.

Rubber Mulch (Nuggets or Shredded) Rubber mulch is flexibility of a rubber surface but not the high price tag. Rubber mulch is made by grinding up recycled tires, providing a soft cushioned surface for children to land. Rubber mulch (nuggets or shredded) comes in at a fraction of the cost of the solid rubber surfaces.

Engineered Wood Fiber: EWF Engineered wood fiber is an affordable and durable option for playground covers.

Engineered Wood Fiber is ground more finely than ordinary landscape mulch, is from virgin wood, and has had the sawdust removed. It provides a safe and natural way to cover the ground while still providing an adequate amount of cushion and protection for children.

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5 Playground Activities That Can Help Child’s Development Swinging Swinging is a basic playground activity that can aid your child’s development in many areas. It helps with balance and teaches him to know where his body is in space. And it also gives him practice with fine motor skills (gripping the chain), gross motor skills (pumping his legs to swing higher) and coordination (putting it all together). What’s more, swinging helps the brain learn to make sense of speed and direction, which may be beneficial for kids with visual perception issues.

Climbing Climbing playground equipment can help your child’s development. The same is true for climbing trees. Here’s why: In order to climb, your child needs to build an awareness of where his body parts are and what he can do with them. Climbing helps make him aware of directions (like up, down, left and right). Climbing also encourages problem solving and predicting what’s going to happen. For example, your child may wonder, “Where should my right foot go next?

How will I get down from the top?” This kind of flexible thinking can help on the playground and in the classroom.

https://www.understood.org/en/friends-feelings/child-social-situations/playgrounds-playdates/5-playground-activities-that-can-help-your-childs-development#slide-5

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Playing on overhead equipment Playing on overhead equipment, like monkey bars, helps your child develop both fine and gross motor skills. He’s practicing little movements (gripping the bar) as well as big movements (swinging from one bar to the next). Equipment like this is great for kids who have trouble with motor planning.

Learning to move one hand at a time from bar to bar can help your child practice coordination and balance. He’ll also learn how to judge where the next bar is in relation to his body.

Having free play Free play can mean anything from organized games to just running around with other kids. But it’s not just goofing around. Free play helps your child learn to communicate with other kids and practice conversation and vocabulary. Playgrounds can help him learn how to follow and change rules, share, and take turns as he makes up games with the other kids. These kinds of social interactions can also help your child practice picking up on social cues like body language and tone of voice.

Playing Ball Games Games like kickball, tetherball, Whiffle ball and four square all help with kids’ development. As your child figures out how to hold on to, manipulate and throw or kick a ball, he’s practicing motor coordination skills.

And as he develops strategies about where he should throw the ball or whether it’s time to run to the next base, he’s working on critical thinking and problem solving.

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Landscape architecture’s construction research These details were researched for facilitating the design while carrying on the project

Rigid paving Stainless-steel joints pattern paving

Rigid pool Dealing with water of the stream created

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Rigid paving

Flexible paving restraint edge copes with self-binding gravel surface on the proposal

Concrete retaining wall Dealing with the transition between the mountain and the building construction

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Cut and fill It is best to balance the amounts of cut and fill on the site in order to avoid having to import and export material. It is usual to direct surfacewater away from the surface plane.

Roads and car parks - and also sports pitches - are essentially large planes, which can be sloped to provide surface drainage.

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Drainage

Right: Filter drain

Right: Infiltration trench with hight-level overflow

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Case study Into the Wild Design: Architects Openfabric, Dmau Location Grevelingenveld, 2515 Den Haag, Netherlands Area: 5100.0 sqm Project Years: 2015 The formal exterior is a place for sports and structured ordered games, while inside the wild interior children are encouraged and free to construct and destruct their own play spaces using natural materials. A boundary “ribbon� between the two worlds wraps and protects the interior, while adapting towards the exterior to allow games and integrate traditional playground elements.

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Case study Jaworznickie Planty Water Playground Design: RS+Rober Skitek Location: Jaworzno, Poland Area: 6900.0 sqm Project Years: 2018 The plan sets up a group of rounded plazas merging with greenery and connected with streams flowing down to the central part. The water playground is situated in the focal point, surrended by green hills. It is recessed regard to the sorrounding alleys level. It makes a comfortable situation for little users, not being visible to walkers from the main alley.

Playground is entwined with shallow stream, acting as footbath pool. Floors pattern refers to sprilling water and makes a background for colorful water toys.

Around the water playground there are benches and seats for parents. That helps them taking care for their playing children.

Unusual shapes of curved benches create a green and quiet places, perfect for a resting, meeting with friends and looking at the sky laying on the hanging nets.

Carefully designed greenery, rustling grass, colorful bushes and flower meadow complete the whole project. Now, these trees make a balmy, cold shadow in the sizzling hot days. Rounded plazas, due of its form, make a comfortable and cosy exteriors, coax walkers to integrate, by its harmonious and consistent plan.

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Design proposal CONCEPT The idea comes from the different kinds of natural elements and environments, namely “water, sand, and upland forest” to provide diverse experience and connections with nature for children while playing in the site. Beside that, each zone has been targeted color, surface material and plants character.

The proposal was also taken into account the typology of site - “ mountain adventure project” as well as facilitating activities inside and outside (passing through site)

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Zone 3: Upland Forest Site character and design principle: The Forest is the final of narrative is told through a group of Scots Pine set along the central raised landform. the open space in the edge of the zone is opportunities for installing the swinging equipment which shows an increase in speed, intensity and physicality in the play offer to provide meaningful play challenges for older children, teenagers and young adults.

Rubber Mulch Color: Green Mix

Scots pine Pinus sylvestris

Zone 2: Sand play

Site character and design principle: Open is the main character of sand place even if we go to sand mountains, beaches or deserts.

The zone also can describe as a dry site with trees house and dead woods and stones.

Cafe structure provides shelter and shadows. And a climbing challenge is an activity for connecting with the next zone.

Rubber Mulch Color: Begie

Fountain Grass Pennisetum alopecuroides Hameln

Zone 1: Water play and streetscape

Site character and design principle: This zone is the transition between streetscape to the mountain playground. Therefore the line hills were created to keep the wet area inside and maintain the feeling of safety for the users as well as provide more sitting places for passengers and parent while looking after their children playing with water.

Rubber Mulch Color: Sky blue

Agapanthus Agapanthus africanus (1.5m)

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General Masterplan Scale 1/100 @ A1 paper

General Section Scale 1/100 @

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View 1 - Swing

View 2 - Sand play

View 3 - Water play

View 4 - Cafe

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Construction details Scale various

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SECTION 1: HARDSCAPE

Material & Furniture 26

Scale 1/100 @ A1 paper

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Material Palette Zone 3: Upland forest

Self-binling Gravel Color: Brown

Zone 2: Sand play

Resin Bound Gravel Color: Brown

Yorkstone Color: Buff Finish: Sawn

Terrazzo

Color: Light pink Finish: Honed

Sand for playground Color: Light yellow

Zone 1: Water play & Streetscape

Kellen Half battered kerb Color: Grey

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Kellen Sferio design range Composite Wood Color: Grigio Brillare (Light Grey ) & Color: Dark brown Grigio Argento (Dark Grey)

Feature

Color: Yello Finish: Roug

Rubber Mulch

Rubber Mulch

Color: Rainbow Green

Color: Green Mix

Rubber Mulch Color: Begie

Bluestone

stone

Color: Light grey Finish: Rough

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Rubber Mulch Color: Sky blue

Terrazzo

Color: White Finish: Honed

Loose pebble washed Color: Black Size: 80mm - 100mm

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SECTION 2: SOFTSCAPE Plants are chosen and arrangements to emphasise the theme of the zone

Planting plan 30

Scale 1/100 @ A1 paper

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Zone 1: Upland forest

Scots pine Pinus sylvestris

Hard shield fern Polysticchum aculeatum

Pagei Hebe pinguifolia 0.3m

Plaintain lily Hosta Francee

Zone 2: Sand play

Japanese Cherry Prunus serrulata (Rosaceae)

Sunshine Brachyglottis

Fountain Grass Pennisetum alopecuroides Hameln

Argentinian vervain Verbena bonariensis

Zone 1: Water play & streetscape

London Plane lilac ‘Vestale’ Platanus x hispanica (x aceri- Syringa vulgaris folia) (Platanaceae)

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Agapanthus Agapanthus africanus

Mexican orange blossom Choisya Ternata

Planting Palette

G RO U N D COV E R S

Principle

Species Rich Lawn Turf

Wildflower-rich meadows

Plant cover

Bressing beauty Astibe

Aril Iris Iris hoogiana

Delphinium Delphinium

The rocket Ligularia

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Reference

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Book 1.H. Robert & L. James, 2011, “Construction for landscape architecture”, London.

2. Collins, 2006, “British wild flowers”, London.

3. Collins, 2006, “British trees”, London.

4. Austin, Richard L, 2002, “Elements of planting design”, Canada.

Website 1.https://www.archdaily.com/908050/jaworznickie-planty-waterplayground-rs-plus-robert-skitek 2. https://www.understood.org/en/friends-feelings/child-social-situations/playgrounds-playdates/5-playground-activities-that-can-help-your-childs-development#slide-5 3. https://www.rhs.org.uk 4. https://www.crocus.co.uk

Research & Project 1. Mountain Adventure (co-lab project) 2. Arup, “City alive - design for childhoods”, London 3. D. Mark, 2005, “Children’s Spaces”, Oxford.

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