Eduspace Solutions and its award-winning partner, Playground Centre, bring high-quality, user-centred playground spaces to international schools globally. As play has a big impact on child development, we are both committed to ensuring every child experiences the joy and benefits of play, designing bespoke playgrounds that bring this vision to life.
What is Playground Centres’ design process?
Fuelled by the philosophy that “fun is for life”, Playground Centre delivers smart, user-centred playground design and installations. Their innovative playgrounds and recreational equipment support healthy minds and bodies for a lifetime.
Their playgrounds cater to all ages and abilities, transforming unique needs and interests into imaginative, engaging play experiences that people love. Their mission is to create spaces where every generation can have fun while gaining lifelong physical and psychological benefits.
Collaborating with landscape architects, councils, schools, and developers helps them to deliver innovative, safe, and durable play equipment. From themed playgrounds and cutting-edge play structures to cable adventures, outdoor electronic gaming, and fitness systems, Playground Centre inspires and transforms school communities globally.
Step 1 – Discover
The first step of the design process focuses on researching and understanding the requirements, usage, and needs of the playground space. This begins with a consultation with the client to gather insights into the school’s existing playground and its location.
We explore details about the community and the users of the space. As part of this discovery phase, we conduct a site visit to evaluate the environment for building the playground on, providing us with a clear understanding of the specific requirements.
This visit allows us to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the space, along with potential opportunities and challenges. These insights become essential during the design process to ensure the playground fosters learning and development effectively.
From this, we conduct a SWOT analysis that highlights the strengths, identifies the weaknesses, finds opportunities, and mitigates possible risks of the given site. This site analysis becomes an important aspect of the whole design process.
We also engage with community members and key stakeholders to gain a deeper understanding of who will use the play space, including their ages, abilities, and backgrounds. We also seek to discover what aspects are most important to them in the playground design.
Step 2 – Explore
Following the initial discovery phase, we delve into exploring play possibilities that will influence the playground’s design. This stage provides deeper insights into the emotions, experiences, and benefits associated with using the space.
We work closely with clients to gain a better understanding of how children will interact with the playground. Research is essential at this stage, so we prioritise engaging the school community. This can be through client discussions, interactive design sessions, or focus groups.
This collaboration helps us create a more meaningful and engaging play environment. Our research examines specific play needs, elements children enjoy or dislike about other playgrounds, and what sparks their creativity and activity.
During the exploration stage, we focus on understanding whether there are any specific play needs, the aspects of other playgrounds that children like or don’t like, and what encourages them to play, explore, and be creative.
Step 3 – Design
After the research phase, we move on to crafting a unique and innovative playground design. Using insights from our research, stakeholder discussions, and site analysis, we can truly get creative with designing a unique and user-centred playground.
During this stage, we ensure compliance with all regulatory requirements while developing visual concepts and detailed drawings of the playground. We also carefully select the most suitable play equipment to enhance the space.
Collaboration remains key throughout the design process. We work closely with our clients and engage the community to gather feedback on key themes and concepts, refining the design to best meet user needs to achieve a user-centred playground design.
Every playground we design follows best-practice principles to maximise learning, development, and engagement. These playground design principles include enjoyment, social interaction, sensory stimulation, agility and fitness, confidence-building challenges, safety, durability, accessibility, and essential amenities.
At the design stage, we focus on developing a design concept based on best-practice playground principles, with safety at the forefront. This stage also involves selecting and customising play equipment, gathering and integrating feedback, and finalising the detailed playground design.
Step 4 – Deliver
The final stage of our playground design process is delivery. Once the client approves the design, we bring the vision to life through manufacturing play equipment, preparing the site for installation, and ensuring all safety certifications are met.
Safety remains our top priority throughout the entire process, guaranteeing that the playground is secure and ready for children to enjoy. All equipment is installed with precision alongside completing safety certification through our accredited specialists.
Why choose Playground Centre?
Playground Centre collaborates with international schools worldwide to design and build playgrounds and outdoor learning environments to elevate student engagement, learning outcomes, and well-being.
Both Eduspace Solutions and Playground Centre work closely with you to design a play space that reflects your school’s vision and values, customised to match your school vision and value, alongside the location, available space, and child development goals.
Creating a high-quality playground requires specialised knowledge and experience. That’s why choosing an expert playground company makes all the difference. By choosing to work with Eduspace Solutions and Playground Centre, our school playground design service can transform your outdoor spaces for better learning and development.
We understand the key elements needed to build a playground that achieves maximum play value. From the durability of our equipment to the richness of the play experience, our dedicated team ensures true value at every stage of the process.
By choosing to work with Eduspace Solutions and Playground Centre, you can benefit from:
- A seamless process from start to finish as our professional design services and in-house manufacturing streamline the entire journey to save you time, money, and stress.
- Dedicated support from a specialist that will guide you through every step, from design and equipment selection to installation and ongoing maintenance.
- Expert guidance by providing insights and best practices in inclusive and age-appropriate playground design, ensuring every child benefits from the play experience.
- Custom solutions with our collaborative, insight-driven approach to transform your vision into an exciting and memorable play space, backed by our customisation capabilities and manufacturing expertise.
- Uncompromising quality built to the highest standards of safety and durability, our equipment is designed to last, minimising maintenance costs over the years.
- Compliance made simple as our in-house experts ensure your playground meets all procurement, installation, and safety certification requirements.
- Effective consultation tools to ensure we provide detailed designs and 3D illustrations to support community engagement, simplify decision-making, and ease the approval process.
Partnering with a company that specialises in user-focused playground design will ensure you create a play space that is truly loved by the community. It also provides several other benefits:
- A seamless process with a well-planned approach from the start saves time, reduces costs, and minimises stress while delivering superior results.
- Tailored support with a dedicated project manager to guide you through every stage, from design and equipment selection to installation.
- Innovative design from expert insights into inclusive, developmental, and age-appropriate playground concepts.
- Regulatory compliance using in-house specialists to ensure all aspects of procurement, installation, and safety certification meet required standards.
- Clear communication with detailed plans and 3D visualisations to streamline decision-making and approvals.
- Long-lasting warranties as our playground solutions come with a variety of warranties, including up to 25 years of conditional coverage on the structural integrity of select timber and steel poles.
We collaborate with international schools to create unique, engaging playgrounds that foster learning and development. From primary schools to other educational institutions, we design high-quality play areas that children enjoy. Contact us today to explore how we can transform your school playground!