Playground@Landscape

YOUR FORUM FOR PLAY, SPORTS UND LEISURE AREAS

Articles in issue 2012 - 2

Playground Report

Safer Playgrounds with Coca Cola

Playground@Landscape: What are the primary goals of the Fanta Playground Initiative and how will these be realised?
Uwe Kleinert, Chief of Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability for Coca-Cola Germany, Berlin: The main goal of the initiative is to create more space for creative and safe play.

Playground Report

Why not encourage the various generations to play together?

Everywhere in the German-speaking world, the accepted policy for several years has been to promote the construction of so-called multigenerational parks. There is now a multiplicity of relevant suppliers and a wide range of exercise equipment designed for the needs of young adults, the middle-aged and especially for adults over the age of 50 years.

Playground Report

"Together, side by side"

The idea provided by the KuKuK Company from Stuttgart in Germany was found to be equally inspiring by both schools. In addition to the usual range of playground equipment, it also included a special floor modelled into low hills which could be accessed by children with physical impairments.

Playground Report

The Spacenet Inventors breathe life into the world of rope play equipment

Over the ensuing 40-plus years the Corocord company has become synonymous with on-going innovation in the sphere of rope play equipment made from rope nets.

Sports & Leisure Facilities

Real Madrid opts again for Desso artificial turf pitches for its training centre

The training center “Ciudad Real Madrid” is a credit to its name. With its 11 football pitches and 1,200,000 m2 of accommodation, it is one of the largest training centres in the world.

Sports & Leisure Facilities

Not "cheap" but "inexpensive"

"The common law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a lot – it can't be done. If you deal with the lowest bidder, it is well to add something for the risk you run, and if you do that you will have enough to pay for something better."

Playground Report

Play without limits

The sensory perception garden at Hagendorn in Switzerland is an outdoor facility designed along remedial pedagogic and sensory theoretical guidelines to help children with multiple disabilities. But it is also more than this in that it offers a varied play and recreation area for everyone.

Playground Report

Rope play – a trend?

If you accept the definition of a trend as a general movement over time of a statistically detectable change, then rope play equipment is still in vogue.

Playground Report

High quality cable and naturally grown timber posts make play trails safe and stylish

Huck constructs its playground equipment from its specially developed Hercules cable. The cable consists of six twisted, 2.5 mm thick steel strands, each of which is formed from seven individual galvanized wires.

Planning, Designing, Building

New safety flooring for climbing halls

The flooring under the brand name of regugym first and foremost helps reduce the severity of injuries incurred in climbing sport when falling to the ground.

Sports & Leisure Facilities

Commentary on the standard DIN SPEC (pre-standard) 18035-7 "Artificial turf areas"

In October 2011, the German standards institute (Deutsche Institut für Normung, DIN) published the document DIN SPEC (pre-standard) 18035-7, "Artificial turf areas" and designated it the successor to DIN V 18035-7:2002.

Planning, Designing, Building

Interesting speakers. Lively discussions. Baroque surroundings.

The first Playground@Landscape magazine playground seminar has taken place. Conclusion to begin with: Interesting speakers, lively discussions and baroque surroundings from the town of Fulda and the event hotel.

Planning, Designing, Building

Playground meets Design

Playground@Landscape: In English and French design means "creation" or "conception", whereas the Italian disegno (English: drawing, sculpture) has the stronger meaning of a process to be tested, like the Spanish diseño.

Sports & Leisure Facilities

School sport facilities in Kusel: The full Polytan programme

During the summer, Polytan had installed new school sports facilities.

Planning, Designing, Building

Adventurous Aero Tilt and Rota Glide available

the Aero Tilt and Rota Glide.

Planning, Designing, Building

Climbing improves intelligence

The bell rings, break at last! Max makes his way outside, because this time he wants to get right to the top before his best friend Leon.

Planning, Designing, Building

»Mohican«: small but exquisite!

What might sound a bit dull and anything but spectacular turns out to be an uncomplicated and low-priced game of a highly stimulative nature.

Planning, Designing, Building

smb receives 2012 red dot design award honourable mention for the modulus trampoline system

The trampoline system, which features only three basic elements and which can be individually designed and arranged, was able to assert itself against very keen competitors in the world’s most renowned design competition.

Planning, Designing, Building

Urban Design – safe without impact protection

More and more cities and municipalities are enhancing their inner-city areas by installing high-quality playpoints that encourage children to have fun and engage in active play and sports without risk exposure.

Planning, Designing, Building

Award presented to eibe Produktion + Vertrieb GmbH & Co. KG

Now the idea is to be entrenched even more firmly in the regions.

Planning, Designing, Building

Huck extend range of rope play equipment

For these courses provide a lot of fun and promote children’s creativity.
The Huck courses feature a multitude of different play elements that can be combined and arranged in any way to form a play world.

Planning, Designing, Building

DOSB recommends playparc fitness trails

This is what the DOSB announced in Frankfurt on the Main in January 2012. playparc installs fitness trails near and right in the middle of German cities.

Planning, Designing, Building

Sound clouds and sound worlds: acoustics and play in open space

You immediately think of a harp and start to pluck the strings. Deep, soft notes and various moods are created – depending on the rhythm in which the notes are created!

Events

Grünbau Trade Fair in Berlin

The bautec 2012 trade fair, which ended on 25th February, was characterised by satisfaction from the participating exhibitors, organisations, guilds and institutions from the construction industry.

Planning, Designing, Building

It all depends on the right care and maintenance

Cleated and spiked shoes or the daily wear and tear caused by school sports have a detrimental effect on synthetic surfaces, particularly in schools and stadiums.