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The Learning Tree.

ArchiPro Project Summary - An innovative early childcare center integrating nature within a challenging site, featuring accessible play areas, a central rotunda, and engaging exploration routes for children.

Title:: The Learning Tree - Silverdale
Landscape Architect:: Playscape
Category:: Community/; Playgrounds and Recreation Spaces

An injection of nature into a cluster of townhouses and retail spaces, this early childcare center was a complex site with level changes across the outdoor area.

In order to provide practical flat and safe play areas for the children, the design uses a multitude of levels that stagger down from the building. Each level is still accessible via ramps that are connected via a central rotunda that has become the heart of the design.

Using the variance in heights to our advantage, we created fun routes for the kids to explore the space, including embankment slides off the main deck and huts with Perspex floors to connect to children crawling through tunnels underneath.

A tough space to work with that challenged us to create something special.

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PlayscapeLandscape Architects

Playscape

Landscape Architects

Tuakau, Tuakau, Waikato

playscape.co.nz

Playscape. Outdoor spaces for little explorers. The team at Playscape are dedicated to providing little explorers with an environment that gives them the opportunity to imagine, explore and discover. We specialise in delivering natural play settings than evoke a sense of New Zealand's natural, wild beauty, allowing integrated teaching and learning opportunities. Our challenge is to maximise your playscape by integrating safe and stimulating play features within green spaces, whilst also sustaining an easy care, clean and visually appealing environment. Our history of strong design concepts reflects our understanding of the social interaction between childcare providers and children. Since 2007, our professional team have delivered successful playscapes throughout New Zealand. We are dedicated to helping educators grow fantastic kids through inspiring and innovative playscapes.