PLAYGROUND EQUIPMENT

PLANNING

The competent design of game space provides safety of playing children, therefore it is very important to plan carefully children's playground at a stage of the project, considering an environment and age features of children, paying special attention to platforms for kids.

Kids are extremely curious and consequently all elements should be as much as possible safe and correspond to age group from 3 till 6 years. The height of bridges, hills should not exceed 1,2 m. Basic elements such playgrounds there can be small houses, sandboxes, hills, rocking chairs on a spring, rocking chairs-balance weights, a small swing, mini-hills and the game complexes designed just for children of this age.

Children of school age from 7 years especially require movement and physical exercises. For them the maximum quantity of functional elements which assume risk is necessary, demand good coordination and physical strength. Using high hills, lianes for the lasagna, rings, the bars, shaking bridges, ropes in game and gymnastic complexes creates excellent effect of competition among children.

In this connection, we wish to give some basic recommendations on that what conditions should be considered at planning children's playground:

• Features of a landscape (biases on districts, trees, paths, etc.);
• an arrangement of underground communications in area of a planned platform;
• a direction of solar beams during the day;
• obligatory presence of safety zones for each separate game component of a platform (not less than one and a half meters from one up to another, for a swing - length of a swing of +2 meters);
• directions of movement of children during game;
• age zones. It is known, that small children do not have feeling of danger, and also coordination of movements is poorly developed, it needs to be considered too;
• a protection of the area from close passing of transport, foot paths.

Planning of game space, as a rule,is not a simple question, we suggest to entrust this business to professionals. Employees "KSIL" and our official distributors will be always glad to help you with this business.