Playground@Landscape

YOUR FORUM FOR PLAY, SPORTS UND LEISURE AREAS

Articles in issue 2012 - 4

Events

Synthetic turf from TROFIL-GREEN® – evergreen and robust.

with maximum durability and a good property profile especially adapted for all professional application fields.

Events

Topflex Playground

Using their experience in construction of plastic surfaces for playing fields and running tracks, the Becker Sportanlagen company has developed a fall-protection surface which provides a new dimension of safety on children's playing grounds and other areas where impact and shock absorbance is required.

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Green Oases in the city -

Green and city – to all appearances a contradiction. Yet there are and always have been areas to retreat to within the city; areas that give nature room to flourish and its users somewhere to relax.

Playground Report

Sams is up to something at the Garden Show

From 26.04.2012 to 07.10.2012 the 16th Bavarian Garden Show 2012 will be taking place on the grounds of the former ERBA cotton mill.

Playground Report

Young urban landscapes

While much attention is paid to the needs of children and older people in urban planning procedures, very little notice is taken of the requirements of teenagers and young adults. Identification and integration of these needs provide new opportunities and create tasks for urban planning.

Playground Report

"What a park!"

This fitting exclamation came from Stefan Freitag, mayor of the town of Velbert during the opening of the Leisure Park Nordstadt. The conversion of the old, derelict playground and football pitch into an intergenerational leisure park was one of the focus projects within the regional urban renovation programme "Stadtumbau West" in Velbert Nordstadt.

Sports & Leisure Facilities

Polytan Estate Landscape products –green eye-catchers of the special kind

Often this is in areas where natural turf cannot grow or only poorly such as under large trees, in yards or in other places which have permanently too little sunlight. With the product range "Estate", Polytan offers a selection of synthetic turfs especially adapted for use in landscape gardening.

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Nature conquers the heart of the city

Lettuce and tomatoes growing on a former brewery site – more and more people living in inner-city environments are planting vegetables, fruits and flowers in courtyards, on balconies and in larger vacant brownfield areas.

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Play area as a close-to-nature world of experience

The solution: Clear functional spaces, interlinking play sequences and designs using natural materials by the landscape architect Friedhelm Ebbinghaus with specially produced play equipment made of naturally knotty locust tree wood from Kinderland Emsland Spielgeräte.

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Animals and wilderness: The Bat Forest Playground

Both in the Bohemian and in the Bavarian part of the Bavarian Forest, 22 locations worked together, representing another distinctive feature of the project. Consideration went into making visitors curious about the term “wilderness” and focussing on indigenous animals as popular figures as part of the tourism work. The municipality of Rinchnach selected the bat-plus-playground.

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Green oasis and private paradise

Playground@Landscape: Turnover of the GaLaBau in 2011 has increased by nearly 500 million Euros. You have taken over the position from Hanns-Jürgen Redeker at a point when the association is doing well. What would you like to improve, change, initiate?
BGL-President August Forster: At the moment a positive general feeling exists throughout the whole "green" sector, which is very pleasing. The association for garden, landscape and sport facility construction (BGL) intends to make use of this mood in order to further develop the trade.

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Give teenagers (green) play areas

This was a success with the outdoor space at Michaelshof in Hepsisau www.mh-zh.de close to Weilheim/unter Teck. The company KuKuk (in German: Kunst Kultur Konzeption (meaning Art Culture Conception)) from Stuttgart was responsible for the planning and implementation of the outdoor space. Starting with the initial discussion with those responsible for the provision of educational aids and a planning workshop with 19 school pupils from grades 7 and 8 to a five-day project week, the ideas and wishes of teenagers were taken seriously and these teenagers were given the right to voice their own opinions and were able to help out with the construction themselves.

Events

GaLaBau trade fair continues to expand

Even larger, even more attractive – this is how GaLaBau, Europe’s leading trade fair for the development and design of gardens, landscapes, sports fields, and playgrounds, is presenting itself in its anniversary year. GaLaBau will take place for the 20th time already from 12 to 15 September 2012. The two subsidiary exhibitions, the PLAYGROUND and Deutsche Golfplatztage (German Golf Course Days) expert sections, have also been prettified and will offer new programme points. More than 1,100 exhibitors and 60,000 specialist visitors are expected to attend the triplet fairs GaLaBau, PLAYGROUND and Deutsche Golfplatztage.

Planning, Designing, Building

Heavenly Exercise Trail at Paradiesweg 1

The modern, uniquely designed extension is joined to the old monastery, which has been renovated to be more sustainable, by a light bridge. It is a successful combination of old and new. A range of wellness packages as well as therapy rooms invite you to relax.

Planning, Designing, Building

Strategic development of recreational areas generates play space

Urban landscapes of the 21st century are facing very complex challenges which cannot always be mastered with the classic means of recreational planning. Current processes of change in urban metropolitan agglomerations however, also provide opportunities for giving more space to the cross-section oriented topic of development of recreational areas and playgrounds.

Planning, Designing, Building

The blossoming of London’s potholes

‘Pothole gardening’, one form of guerrilla gardening, first took root in Oxford. It was Pete Dungey who here first came up with the idea of using potholes as tiny guerrilla gardens both as a protest against the appalling state of Britain’s roads and to subvert familiar perceptions of what a street should look like. “If we were to fill every pothole in Britain with plants, our roads would be an absolute sea of blooms”, claims Dungey, who works as a typographic designer. The condition of London’s roads is no better. The video producer, social media specialist and serial blogger Steve Wheen thus adopted Dungey’s concept and has been working hard at filling London’s potholes with his own unique horticultural-based creations.

Sports & Leisure Facilities

Care of filled synthetic turf systems

Wrong or insufficiently intensive care reduces the operating life and has an adverse effect on the properties of the turf. It is often the case that the turf must be replaced long before its actually intended life period – with substantial economic damages.

Sports & Leisure Facilities

IAKS-Seminar "Plastics and synthetic turf surfaces for sport and leisure facilities" at Königsbrunn, Germany, June 20/21, 2012

The objective of the event was to provide in-depth answers to discussion topics such as: "Which construction methods are most suitable for which uses? How are fibres, plastics and granules manufactured and what is their influence on use? It is always very interesting to hear about innovations in the trade based on examples and presentations.

Sports & Leisure Facilities

6thSPONSORs’ Sports Venue Summit on September 5&6, 2012 at the Alliance Arena in Munich

The three main focus points of the congress continue to be major events, construction and operation of sports stadiums and Innovation & Technology.

Sports & Leisure Facilities

Compliance testing of synthetic turf pitches

Until October 2011, the standard DIN V 18035-7:2002-06 was the sole technical reference for manufacture of synthetic turf pitches in Germany. The DIN authorities have now withdrawn this standard and replaced it with DIN SPEC (pre-standard) 18035-7:2011 Sports grounds – Part 7: Synthetic turf areas, which is not a standard in the sense of DIN standard specifications.