School Outdoor Adventure Play – Croydon
Project Photo Gallery:
Looking down from the middle of the course
The adventure course makes extensive use of raised decking that wrapped around living trees
View across the slope
The design utilised readily available timber cut when clearing and removal of unsafe trees
Rope assault section, for the nimble and quick
Top section of with rope pull-up
Bottom of the slope
Brief:
Boardman Gelly were commissioned by a Croydon school to transform a fenced off, unused area of waste ground on a steep slope into an adventure play area.
Project:
Relishing a challenge like this, we realised immediately that coppicing the wooded area and removing unsafe trees would provide us with lots of timber to use in the construction.
The design brief also required us to design a challenging environment for a range of ages and abilities.
Combining walkways, raised decked areas, ramps, climbing and sliding equipment, we created a number of different activity zones designed with a variety of skill levels in mind.
What was once an unused space is now an asset to the school greatly valued and enjoyed by the pupils.