Adventure Playground Engineers is an award-winning London-based firm with more than 20 years' experience of developing adventure playgrounds, designing and building play structures in public parks, schools, urban environments, community gardens and tourist spots. In recent years we have branched out into events and PR.
You can find out more about APES on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. We provide free consultation and first-stage designs, so please call or email us directly to book an appointment. If you are looking to raise cash for your project, we might be able to give you a head-start: see fundraising for details.
You can find out more about APES on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. We provide free consultation and first-stage designs, so please call or email us directly to book an appointment. If you are looking to raise cash for your project, we might be able to give you a head-start: see fundraising for details.
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The staff and children wanted to dismantle and redesign the old equipment on-site to enhance the playground. Retaining the old slide, we reinstalled it with a new platform attached to the rebuilt and reclad tower (using some original timber), with a tunnel slide fashioned from a water drainage pipe.
Those of you who are familiar with the sector know that Dexter Adventure Playground lacked safe play structures for nearly a decade, so this was a commission close to our hearts. The final design by Erect Architecture was that of a house hit by an earthquake with a collapsing floor. The idea came from a former APES design for a house on the site (traditionally the playground featured house-like structures).
This free open-access playground was named Playground of the Year by London Play in 2005. In 2010 we were asked to redesign its two plywood towers, which were in a state of disrepair and too narrow for children to get into, let alone play in. We refashioned them as towers for slides, reclad them with timber, created a number of new entrances/exits and commissioned tailor-built slides from Eibe Play.
A collaborative design project with MOH Design, APES was subcontracted by SSG Landscape Architects to help build this flagship playground during an incredibly wet period of British weather. The children were keen to go as high as they could: now at the top of the tower it is possible to see the aeroplanes landing on the other side of Luton.
In close consultation with staff and children at this playground, APES designed and built under- and over-8 play areas. The site includes a wheelchair-accessible wobbly bridge, slides, towers, walkways, a tango swing, lookout points, plus a high Wendy house with perspex windows for under-5s. One of the bridges is made from an old quarry conveyer belt.
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