Playing in the playground

The Waldorf school in the Californian town of Orange County has had a very special school playground since 2016. Two high double swings standing next to each other allow four children to swing with and next to each other at the same time. The climbing structure, which is very suitable for schoolyards and on which several children can have fun climbing and balancing at the same time, is complemented by a platform with an attached tunnel slide. Here you can also climb and run around, or just enjoy the view, sit in the shade under the platform floor and immerse yourself in role play.

Popular destination for families

Odds Farm Park, the most popular family day out destination in High Wycombe, has expanded its play offering with the addition of a brand new Richter play area to complement the existing Richter water and sand play areas. As one of the largest farm attractions in the UK, Odds Farm regularly receives top ratings on Trip Advisor. Continuous new investment ensures that visitors return regularly. The management tries to expand the offer every year, and this year they decided to create an extensive adventure play area in collaboration with Richter and Timberplay. An area for toddlers developed by Richter and Timberplay was opened in 2013, followed by a sand and water play area in 2014. Thanks to the greater challenges offered by the new play equipment, the target group is being expanded to include older children.

The complex combination of play equipment has created a play focus with crossovers, rope bridges and slides, which should inspire children of all ages. There are also climbing walls, micro seesaws, bouncy boards and hexagonal swings. All of the equipment was selected with the large number of guests who visit Odds Farm on Sundays and public holidays in mind.
"The play area is extremely popular with the children, the feedback from visitors is excellent and the 'wow' factor is just as we imagined it would be."
Odds Farm Park was established 21 years ago near Beaconsfield in Buckinghamshire in the south of England and, following annual expansions, is now one of the UK's largest farm attractions, attracting more than 200,000 visitors a year. The park is one of the most important members of the National Farm Attractions Network (NFAN).

Idyllic playground in the north of Athens

An idyllic playground has been created in the north of the Greek metropolis of Athens, surrounded by typical Mediterranean vegetation consisting of olive trees, cypresses and fragrant wild herbs. The pyramid towers and platforms with a tunnel slide and a climbing structure attract older children and teenagers in particular. Younger children can immerse themselves in role play and test their skills in the extensive sand play area with various playhouses, swinging horses and spinning tops.

Playing with natural materials

Bison's Bluff Nature Playground was designed to engage children in active and passive play in a natural environment. This unique, specially designed park primarily includes natural materials such as logs, boulders, sand and water. A visit inspires open and creative forms of play, similar to those of previous generations of children who were able to enjoy playing in meadows, forests and streams near their homes. The goal of Bison's Bluff Nature Park is to inspire children and young people to learn resilience, discover the benefits of cooperation and experimentation, and confidently shape the world around them.
The Richter playground integrated here and opened in 2017 contains numerous exciting movement elements such as slides, climbing structures, triangular platforms and some platforms that are reminiscent of a multi-level tree house and have shingle roofs adapted to the park environment, as well as a sand and water playground that is particularly suitable for smaller children attracts and invites you to play imaginatively with the elements. What distinguishes a natural playground like this from a typical park playground is the fact that many of the play elements, such as the climbing structures, platforms and attachments, are made from natural materials. There are also numerous information signs to help children and parents make optimal use of the additional natural play options available.

The water play area at Odds Farm Park comprises 500 square meters of water play area, 80 meters of canals, streams and pools as well as 28 different play features, including sluices, dams, an Archimedean screw and a water wheel. Instead of the typical 'splash pool', H2Odds offers a calmer, more intense play experience and is ideal for the park's target group (0-8 years). It is perfect for social and engaging play and brings different groups of children together for a shared play experience.

The water game has very few mechanisms as the children pump the water themselves, which helps them to understand scientific and mathematical principles.

Richter Spielgeräte integrates the city's heraldic animal into an extensive playground along the Ohio River.

When the city of Cincinnati in Ohio/USA awarded the contract for the planning and implementation of the "Smale Riverfront Park" playground on the Ohio River to Richter Spielgeräte, one of the requests was to incorporate Cincinnati's heraldic animal as a theme. The fact that it is a flying pig, of all things, has a long tradition: in the decades after the city was founded in 1814, Cincinnati made a name for itself primarily with the production of cured pork.
With the "Oinkithopter" play structure, Richter created a winged pig that can be climbed using a climbing net and whose belly is just as suitable as a place to relax and retreat as it is as a space for children's role-playing games.
Around this attractive attraction and in front of the city skyline, a world of play has been created on a spacious green area on the riverbank that will captivate children of all ages.
In addition to a wide variety of water play equipment such as Archimedean screws, numerous channels, weirs and pumps, where children can have fun pumping and guiding the wet element, especially in summer, wide, undulating slope slides invite them to have special fun and older children and teenagers in particular can test their sense of balance and dexterity on the rope structures that connect various play modules at lofty heights.
Several children can sit on the large turntable at the same time and either experience gentle movements or give themselves over completely to the centrifugal force. Of course, good balance is required for everything.

Landmark of a busy area with different levels of risk

The South Bank is one of London's most visited areas and visitors from all over the world flock here to enjoy the attractions. In the shadow of the London Eye and just around the corner from Big Ben is the Jubilee Gardens playground.

The playground is a clear landmark and offers the ideal place for families and children to slow down. There is plenty of seating for adults who need a break and a huge climbing combination that challenges children and teenagers to climb from one end to the other. The equipment has been selected to accommodate many children at once and also offers different levels of risk so that children can find their own limits. The playground was opened as part of the Queen's Golden Jubilee celebrations in 2012 and was designed by the renowned Rotterdam architectural firm West 8. In the summer of 2022, the playground was equipped with additional Richter play equipment such as a bouncy flower and a play ship.

A designer playground whose play equipment blends in with the surroundings

Although Sydney's newest district, the Darling Quarter, is located in the middle of the city, it offers plenty of space for leisure activities and recreation. The aim of this urban development project was to create a family-friendly urban space for living and working. The integrated park has proved to be a key driver for the development of the Darling Quarter.
It is also home to one of the city's most exciting playgrounds. Its spacious water area was created on a concrete surface with a design reminiscent of ice floes.
The water is pumped, for example with the user-friendly "water dispenser", which even the very youngest children can easily operate. The water flows through channels between the "ice floes" and can be dammed and diverted here and there. It can then be transported back up again using the Archimedean screw and scoop fountain.
 

Enrichment for shopping arcade: Richter indoor playground

The fact that Richter not only equips conventional playgrounds but also designs indoor play areas can be seen, for example, in the "Arese" shopping arcade in Milan, Italy.
With an area of 92,000 square meters spread over 200 stores, restaurants, cafés and an indoor and outdoor sports facility, the Arese Shopping Center is the largest shopping mall in Italy. Here you will find a Richter play paradise, which attracts attention from afar thanks to its attractive centerpiece, a 13-meter-high pyramid tower. The tower is also equipped with a climbing wall, net windows and a huge tunnel slide with portholes. Next to it are spacious platform huts that can be climbed and explored and, with their niches, not only offer children of all ages a place to retreat to, but also enable a wide variety of role-playing games. There are child-friendly seating areas for painting, chatting and picnicking.

A play ship in the style of a Nile galley

Meeting the customer's wish to customize the playground of an outlet center in a very special way was an exciting challenge. The main attraction was to be a Nile galley. The large wooden ship was constructed in its characteristic shape and supplemented with elements such as a steering wheel and suspension bridge as well as various sand play modules.
The playground, which is perfectly visible from the outside area of the café, gives children a welcome break from tiring shopping activities. Depending on their mood, they can jump wildly or balance carefully on the wobbly beam and bouncy boards.