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The Zimmer.Obst GmbH company is among the playscape designers and manufacturers to demonstrate their skills at the IGS (International Garden Show):
Due to the successful cooperation of the past few years in Hamburg, the designers of Zimmer.Obst were commissioned to submit a design for a playground with the theme “field windmill” for the IGS premises in Hamburg for in former times the fields in the marshland were irrigated with field windmills as they are called! On the basis of old documents and photos, a play area in the form of an abstract field windmill was developed as a play unit.
A climbing unit including a bench, climbing rope with rubber mats, a rung ladder, a climbing net and two spiral tube slides are integrated into the substructure. The superstructure (the mill house) serves as the slide run-out and measures 2 x 2 metres and is 3 metres high. The slide is installed at a height of 4 metres. Of course, there are also huge windmill sails. One of them is used as a difficult outer climbing ascent. On the outer casing there is a climbing wall with handholds and footholds, which provides a demanding access to the slide platform. A balancing/ sitting object has been installed next to the mill. It is the upright shaft as it is called, at which a common hamster figure carved from solid oak wood crouches.
Furthermore, the play object “Huts and Palaces” manufactured by Zimmer.Obst can be seen on the IGS premises. The wide variety of materials and shapes of the six individually designed towers symbolizes the cultures of the world.
The play structures, which are connected to a varied climbing course, were devised by the Berlin-based landscape architect’s office K1 as well as designed and manufactured by Zimmer-Obst, providing an excellent example of close and fruitful co-operation.
