This was not so much a work project, as entry into a realm of enchantment. PLAYLINK had been recommended to the school’s headteacher, Ben Hasan. Ben wanted to enhance an already lovely outdoors and we found ourselves with a client whose values and interests pretty much mirrored our own. So, technical issues aside – we all wanted as big a…
Children are now outside playing and learning in their newly developed school grounds at Sheringham Nursery School and Children’s Centre. This was a complex commission for a number of reasons that included: the outdoors was wrapped around three sides of the school building; two of the sides were allocated to a specific age range; one side was the Children’s Centre…
A real challenge: a mean, cramped space bounded by wall and fencing, the only bit of outside available to this nursery. Even we gave in to the practical need for artificial turf – usually anathema to us – balanced, we hope, by planting along the walls. We created a softer, sensory, manipulable and aesthetically pleasing environment. Nearly all features bespoke.…