CREEKSIDE PLAYGROUND

The new Creekside Park Playground draws it’s inspiration from it’s waterfront position on Vancouver’s historic False Creek mud flats. Dead wood stumps and the former industrial docks and piers which populated the site in the not too distant past informed the form and character of the design.

A primary objective of the design was to create a destination play experience that children of all ages and abilities can enjoy. Natural materials such as wood, rocks, sand, water and sensory plantings are incorporated throughout the space and combined with galvanized steel play elements to create a natural play space which is in tune with nature and it’s former industrial context, rooting the playground firmly to it’s site. The natural and raw materials are juxtaposed against a vibrantly coloured rubber pattern the concept of which is drawn from the sea.

A myriad of accessible and sensory play pieces are integrated throughout the design. Including musical instruments, a water and sand table with pump, an accessible play hut, basket swing and embankment slide. Tactile, fragrant, child friendly shrubs and perennials are planted at the raised islands creating an accessible sensory garden.

Given it’s waterfront location, the planting was designed to do double duty in creating bird habitat, as well as shade and sensory experience for children and adults alike.