Burnside Adventure Park

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Kensington Gardens Reserve, SA

The playspace concept incorporates a positive and imaginative outlook towards the provision of creative and stimulating play experiences, where physical play is complemented with mental challenges and passive areas.

The design of the award winning Burnside play space demonstrates that Hemisphere Design creates playspaces, not 'playgrounds', where there are various levels of stimulation and experiences, and where physical play is significant, but not the only component.

Themes for the Burnside Adventure Park were influenced by the large scale of the existing Eucalypts on site, with ‘larger than life’ elements, such as a giant spider web and giant swings. The unique concept includes changing levels and sculptural play elements with a variety of colours, textures and scales.

The first experience involves exciting physical stimulation, such as climbing, jumping, running, swinging, etc. The second experience involves interpretation, with mental stimulation that challenges and invokes the imagination of the children (and adults) with narratives, trails, and experiences that have an educational element. The third experience is passive, where children and adults alike can sit and contemplate.

Hemisphere Design embrace the uniqueness of each project’s particular ‘sense of place’  to determine the character of the location, and use these tools to shape the potential future identity.  At the heart of this process is a keen appreciation of the 'sense of place' of the landscape and surrounding environment.

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