Few months ago the new Ecological Park in the Municipality of Nikaia-Rentis has opened its gates. The most impressive part for younger citizens? The new playground of 7.20m height!

Pentagode XL.01 has been installed welcoming children of all ages to explore and develop their skills. While climbing in the Spaceball L alone is already a treat, connected via bridges to the mighty Pentagode XL, the combination unfolds the full potential of imaginative play. Pentagode XL.01 has a simultaneous capacity of 150 children!

It’s a fact that rope play is excellent for the development of motor skills, muscles development and improvement of balancing skills of the children. The transparent construction of Pentagode XL.01 facilitates socialization. Children learn to take turns and work with others, especially when navigating around the playground and sharing the same space as other children. It is great to watch families spending time all together, parents/grandparents playing with their children/grandchildren, children exploring and developing new skills, and most importantly visitors of all ages having fun!

Special Thanks to: Kipon Odos, Tsirogiannis Construction Company, International School of Piraeus

“Our new Ecological Park stands emblematic, with multiple uses for leisure, fun, and sports. Inclusivity in terms of access has been included in our project from the first moment of the study. A new green park is ready to welcome the citizens, standing as a pole of attraction for visitors from the wider region of Piraeus!”
Giorgos Ioakeimidis, Mayor of Municipality Nikaia-Rentis

Location: Ecological Park, Municipality Nikaia-Rentis
Realization: September 2023
Contractor: Georgakopoulos Athanasios Ltd
Products by: Berliner Seilfabrik
Photo Credits: Ena Kare

Written by Berliner Seilfabrik Team

In the Munich district “Berg am Laim” a new urban city quarter is emerging. The so called “Werksviertel” is approximately 39 ha in size and is designed to connect life, housing and work. Here is where old and innovative ideas collide: a former industrial area and a project of new construction. In the late 1940s a company producing potato-based products was opened in “Berg am Laim” until it shifted locations in the 90s. At that same time, a large number of clubs were established and later the former industrial area was converted into a leisure- and party district. In 2016, the city Munich laid the groundwork for the remodelling of the area.

The about 1.250 flats built around the centre of the district as well as a new primary school complete the quarter. In order to make efficient use of the available space, the school building was constructed above the school gymnasium. The schoolyard features a grass field and an all-weather court for physical activity.

Responsible for planning the playground was the office Stautner + Schäf locatedin Munich. To represent the industrial flair the play equipment was chosen to be made of steel, also increasing to its longevity. Additionally, play equipment in a playground has to be designed for many children of different ages to climb on simultaneously. Aesthetics also played a role in choosing the equipment for the new and modern school. All those wishes combined led to working together with Berliner, resulting in a variety of colourful play structures and play points, designed to encourage students to move freely in their breaks while providing supervisors with enough vision to ensure their safety.

The children can look forward to a net tunnel with a length of about 12 metres, which allows them to climb in between two green areas. Petra Stautner, landscape architect at Stautner + Schäf reveals: “The concept initially provided that the tunnel was drawn through the trees already present on the playground, which would let the children make the special experience of climbing right through the treetops. Sadly however, the trees had to be removed during ordnance clearance.”

The Berliner Shout structure shaped like a four-leaf clover coloured in bright orange is a true highlight of the playground. The bird’s eye view further expresses this unique shape, shown by the Cloverwood at the town hall squale in the city of Hamm. This play equipment with a wooden frame was a foundation for the playground at the primary school.

The children can climb in a height of up to 3 metres across the net spanned between two curved tubes of steel. Climbing ropes as well as rubber mats round out this sculpture.
The clover leaf shape is a tradition at Berliner. The cloverleaf ring made of aluminium was an idea of founder Karl Köhler. It fixates the ropes in a spatial net without risking injury of the fingers while climbing and also provides exchangeability of single ropes.

The unique part of the Twist & Shout product group is the patented Charlotte Connector that lets the ropes disappear in the frame and simplifies the tensioning process. The Charlotte Connector is the only connecting element in the world that connects singular ropes directly to posts and tubes while at the same time allows for retensioning.

This is a project reference of Berliner Seilfabrik, Huntington Beach, California. If you would like to create a relevant custom-made solution in Greece or Cyprus, please do not hesitate to contact with us at info@eliteareas.gr

The Park was designed and built in 2021. Mary Pernjak Landscape Architects have transformed an empty bare landscape located in front of Luxury Villas, into a green destination in the area. It stretches out over 125 meters along the beach and connects with the continuing path and bicycle lane that leads into the City.

The concept of the park derives from the natural movement of the water. The central axis is replicating the wave pattern and leads to an organic shaped landscape unusual for common park design in the area. Mary Pernjak Landscape Architects have also used a different planting palette bringing scenes of the Cyprus landscape into a public space. Visitors can observe and explore different planting combination.

The Park’s West corner opens up into a green lawn with a playground area and offers sitting spaces to enjoy the amazing sea view and the skyline of the City of Limassol. Mary Pernjak Landscape Architects have chosen one play equipment, designed and produced by Berliner Seilfabrik GmbH & Co., to offer children unique play experiences with wide varieties of challenges. The Spaceball S allows many children engaging and playing together at the same time, creating fun moments, and developing their motor and social skills.

The success of the Park reflects in the everyday user. It has been integrated into the daily lifestyle of the community as well as of the visitors. You will find people jogging, exercising, strolling and relaxing in the park. The implementation and close collaboration of Mary Pernjak Landscape Architects with the construction company M. A. Turfland & Sons Ltd, fulfilled the development objectives. As a result, green spaces improve quality of life and have a positive impact on citizens’ wellbeing.

“This is a satisfying and proud moment, when a spark of a design idea has become reality.”, Mary Pernjak Landscape Architects

Location: Limassol, Cyprus
Realization: September 2021
Product by: Berliner Seilfabrik GmbH & Co.
Landscape Architect: Mary Pernjak Landscape Architects
Landscape Construction: M. A. Turfland & Sons Ltd.
In Collaboration with: Tsirogiannis Construction Company

Written by Berliner Seilfabrik Team

Lying on the beautiful California coast, Huntington Beach started the new year off with the grand opening of a spectacular new playground at Central Park West. In association with the city of Huntington Beach and local Berliner distributer Dave Bang Associates Inc., Berliner created a signature play scape that is truly unique. The breath-taking combination of a huge DNA Tower, a tall Trii treehouse, a challenging PentaBoo, a fast zip line, multiple net tunnels, a Wasp’s Net to relax in and many more other play components has already become a hit for many kids in Huntington Beach!

The overall aesthetic and colour scheme of this project is very captivating. From the Grey Aluminium posts to the bamboo slats on the Trii, Boo and slide along with the Traffic Blue balls and clamps to that bright Lime rope, it has an earthy sense of warmth to it with a hint of industry.

Another great feature on this project is that all the structures are connected so that the whole design of this project flows seamlessly together. It also allows users to start playing at any point in the park and move through it at their own pace.

This is a project reference of Berliner Seilfabrik, Huntington Beach, California. If you would like to create a relevant custom-made solution in Greece or Cyprus, please do not hesitate to contact with us at info@eliteareas.gr

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The well-known playground concept in a new design

With LevelUp, the traditional playground idea of towers and platforms is supplemented by innovative add-on components and inclusive play elements. The well-known playground concept in a new design combines technical finesse with the usual high-quality standards and offers every playground planner new unexpected possibilities.

LevelUp offers room for imaginative play in which children at all stages of development will participate. Perhaps the children sail around the seven seas on a pirate ship, conquer a guarded castle or explore a lonely island.

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Inclusion was an integral part and driving force during the development of LevelUp. Handles and steps help physically challenged children climb the height differences and thus participate in the game. Play panels close to the ground are also easily accessible to children in a wheelchair and train the users’ motor and auditory skills.

Various add-on components such as a fast lane slide, a chessboard bridge, entry nets and different ladders provide the necessary challenge and additional fun for little climbers and can be selected individually.

An integrated, printable sunshade completes the LevelUp play equipment. The roof structure looking like a leaf is made of high-tech mesh fabric that is dirt-repellent, 100% recyclable and resistant to UV light.

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In the Bavarian Forest, near the Czech border, a marvelous nature discovery awaits you. A spectacular 2-kilometre-long Forest Treetop Path leads visitors at a height of 30 meters above and through the treetops to a gigantic tower in the shape of a spherical tree with an integrated playground of a special kind.

Various play elements such as net tunnels and bridges playfully connect six levels and thus approx. 23 meters in height up to the viewing platform. An inclined net ascent takes the visitors to an arched ascent with inner offset nets, which leads along the outside of the tower at a height of about 40 meters.

Once you have crossed the arch, you land on the level where one of the highlights of the forest tower is located: the ten-meter-high DNA Tower with a three-dimensional climbing net that almost sticks out of the tower with its posts.

Furthermore, you can balance across the forest tower on a jungle rope in an 11.5-metre-long net tunnel at a height of 6 metres. The second arched ascent leads up to the viewing platform at a height of about 7 metres inside the tower.

The viewing platform with a breath-taking view of the Bavarian Forest features another exciting one-of-a-kind highlight. Two close-meshed nets found at the far edge of the platform offer those who dare to step on the net a view 52 meters into the depths. This adventurous is absolutely unforgettable!

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This accessible playground in Larry Gury Community Park offers play equipment for all age groups. This fully equipped play structure based on a Neptun invites you to take part in breath taking adventures. Crossing a jungle bridge, climbing up in the air, conquering a fortress, and riding down a fast-paced curved slide – this net spaceship guarantees hours of fun and is clearly the showpiece of the playground.

With a flubber ramp as an entrance, the journey starts off wobbly but the attached handholds provide support. This play structure enhances children’s decision-making skills, improving their physical skills, socializing, and taking healthy risks for their development.

This combination of a Spoo and a Mini Mars provides excellent opportunities for climbing, balancing, and sliding for small children. The Mini Mars is specifically designed for beginners, as most of the usable net space is close to the ground. Courageous climbers can experience the first feelings of success when climbing up to the top.

This bright playhouse encourages toddlers to role play while promoting their social behavior and communication. The slide ensures extra fun while playing.

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Reality and fantasy merge at “The Cove” in Sacramento, CA. Multi-story treehouses connected by high-flying suspension bridges set the scene for this spectacular playground. An access net, a ladder, two slides, and slacklines extend the play value to a maximum variety.

An access net, a ladder, two slides, and slacklines extend the play value to a maximum variety.

In addition to the imaginative treehouse-village, this playground also offers various Playpoints that invite numerous activities. The organic and modern stainless-steel structure Butterfly with a special rubber bearing system ensures a lot of fun when seesawing.

Rotatable, inclusive, and so much fun, this little Christmas tree can be installed anywhere and is an enrichment for every playground.

The Eddie.01 stands up straight for kids big and small who love to go for a spin. Fun, style, and coolness – all rolled into one Playpoint!

This is a project reference of Berliner Seilfabrik, Sacramento, CA. If you would like to create a relevant custom-made solution in Greece or Cyprus, please do not hesitate to contact with us at info@eliteareas.gr

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The imposing play equipment in the form of an almost 20 feet high climbing tower will catch your eye even from a distance. The tower shines in resplendent red, yellow and orange from the newly designed Platz der Begegnung in Heidelberg. Here on the eastern outskirts of the town, where the Schlierbach valley gently slopes down towards the Neckar River, is the Schlierbach district. A development of mainly detached urban villas extends up the steep slope, while down in the valley, Heidelberg’s main artery – consisting of the S-Bahn (suburban railway) and Bundesstraße (A-road) 37 – pulsates along the Neckar.

In the lower part of the Schlierbach slope, just above the Schlierbach-Ziegelhausen S-Bahn station, there has been the Platz der Begegnung since October 2019 – a plateau embedded in the slope, consisting of a playground, a boules court and benches. Here, citizens of all ages can meet, relax, exercise and exchange ideas.

“This is exactly what the city of Heidelberg had in mind,” explains Friedhelm Natzschka, who as a landscape architect was responsible for designing the Platz der Begegnung, “A unique place with a distinctive character was to be created that would benefit the population. A place of encounter in an area where people have previously hardly stopped and lingered. A village square outside the centre.”

The main part of the newly designed square is a fortified area of almost 3,500 square feet, which is shaped like an egg from a bird’s eye view. This shape lends an organic appeal to the square and at the same time contrasts it with the rather striking lines of the surroundings. From here, visitors can enjoy a splendid view of the Neckar valley below and the green village structure of the Ziegelhausen district on the opposite slope. Benches invite visitors to rest and linger.

The highlight of the square is the climbing tower, which is located in the “yolk” area of the square. Not only because it offers a wide range of particularly exciting activities, but also because its modern and sculptural design brings a breath of fresh air to the Platz der Begegnung. The combination of curved and straight tubes in different thicknesses reveals a twist in the façade. Resembling the structure of DNA, the play structure spirals up into the sky. The organic shapes of the round tubes and spheres complement the overall appearance of the egg-shaped square.

The climbing structure can be ascended via a three-dimensional net made of ropes inside the tower. In this way, children can climb to a height of over 13 feet and change their perspective by looking at the “world” from above. At the same time, the transparent structure allows constant eye contact with the parents on the ground. From the parents’ point of view, this makes for easy supervision. A box slide provides a speedy and exciting descent down to the ground.

“The aim was to create a real attraction for the square by installing this extraordinary play equipment. The tower not only serves as a lookout over the Neckar valley, but also draws the necessary attention to the square by being visible from afar,” says Natzschka. The striking colour scheme of red and orange tubes and the yellow-coloured net also adds to this. At the same time, the tower blends in with its surroundings by picking up the hues of the reddish flooring of the square and the plants.

Another aspect in choosing the play equipment was the size of the play volume in relation to the floor space. “Which is ideal in the case of the DNA Tower,” thinks the landscape architect, “By making optimal use of its height with the spatial net, the tower can accommodate many children at once despite its small diameter of just over nine feet.”

Playing together on one device in turn promotes social interaction among children. Through interactive play, they develop social skills, learn to show consideration for each other or help each other. This is exactly the intention of the overall concept: a place of encounter.

The “Duck Jibe” spinning element attached to the tower provides plenty of variety on the ground. It simulates a surfing manoeuvre and thus also attracts older children.

In addition to the playground, the look-out benches and the boules court, the “Schlierbach Egg” can also be used for events such as flea markets or small parties, thus providing another place of encounter. As the site is wheelchair-accessible, people of all abilities can come together.

After about nine months of construction, the Platz der Begegnung was completed in October 2019. The opening of the square was met with great enthusiasm by the numerous residents who attended and gives hope that the “Schlierbach Egg” will remain a place of encounter in the long term.

This is a project reference of Berliner Seilfabrik, in Heidelberg, Germany. If you would like to create a relevant custom-made solution in Greece or Cyprus, please do not hesitate to contact with us at info@eliteareas.gr

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“Liget Budapest” – that is the name of the largest and most ambitious urban culture development project so far in Europe, in which the symbolic and largest public park in Hungary’s capital was completely renovated. One of the most modern and varied playgrounds in Europe has been created on an area of 13,000 square metres in the south-eastern part of the park, which consists of a total of over 50 various play equipment. These are not only aimed at all different age groups, but also predominantly offer a high level of inclusive potential.

At the centre of this extraordinary playground, there is a hot-air balloon almost 12-meters in height, at the interior of which there is a huge spatial net. The ascent to the balloon`s basket takes place via rope ladders and climbing ropes, before the three-dimensional climbing net is accessed via ascent plateaus of varying heights. The famous painting “The Balloon” by the artist Pál Szinyei Merse from 1878 served as the model for the balloon design. It shows a hot-air balloon in the striking white-red striped colour combination, as it ascends from Városliget Budapest in the air. The new climbing balloon is thus not only an attractive playground equipment for the children in the park, but its appearance also creates a historical connection between the past and the present life in Városliget.

“The entire balloon is designed around a pendulum-mounted central mast, which is anchored to the ground with a total of eight ropes” explains Katharina Hilger from the Berliner Creative Center, who is primarily responsible for the development of the climbing balloon. “The spatial net was tensioned in a frame structure made of steel tubes, which is suspended from another four steel cables from the top of the central mast. In order to maintain the round shape of the balloon, the balloon skin has been stiffened using vertical plastic rods.”

It was a challenge to reduce the wind load, to which the balloon is exposed to due to its size. “We have used an air-permeable, PVC coated polyester fabric for the balloon skin. Thus we were able to make sure that the balloon can also withstand strong winds. At the same time, the slightly transparent textile structure ensures that enough light gets into the interior of the balloon,” says Hilger.

Another highlight of the playground are the two climbing towers, which are 11 meters in height, each of which are fitted with a tube spiral or a tube curve slide. While the ascent to one tower takes place via a challenging close-meshed spatial net, the other is equipped with sloping net plates that can be used to climb all the way up. Both towers are connected to each other through net tunnels, a large horizontal net and many other different low rope climbing elements. However, the towers and the balloon are by no means the only playground equipment in the Városliget City Park, which makes it possible to climb to great heights. Climbing enthusiasts can climb to the tree house Quii, which is located on the top of the mast of a three-dimensional central mast climber. From here, it leads via a net tunnel and another tree house into a low rope course once again. This ends with a large chessboard-cube made of rubber membrane mats.

In the immediate vicinity of the rope play equipment, there are various swing and jumping attractions close to the ground. In addition to a Net Swing, as well as the two nest swings Cup Swing, six persons can experience high-altitude flights together at the same time on the Face-to-Face Swing. Trampolines in different shapes and sizes provide enjoyment in jumping for both young and old.

In a separate toddler area, among other things, the play house Triitopia offers space for role-playing, retreats and first climbing experiences for the younger children. In particular, the sloping mesh floors in the tiny houses offer a special challenge for the children.

In order to be able to create such a modern and holistic play world, which is sustainable attractive for families and which is also used in the long term as a place for regular leisure activities, child psychologists, landscape architects, teachers and children were involved at the beginning of the planning process. Benedek Gyorgyevics, the Managing Director of the company Városliget Zrt. which is responsible for the Liget Projekt, is satisfied with the result: “The new playground helps to ensure that the young children of Budapest are able to live a healthier lifestyle than before, because it gives them the opportunity to be physically active in the fresh air – a real alternative to video games on the sofa at home”, says Gyorgyevics to the Daily News Hungary.

The playground is more than well received by the residents of Budapest! “We know that on sunny days between 5.000 and 6.500 people go to the playground”, says Tamás Sándor from S-TÉR – Berliner Partner in Hungary. “It means that approximately 15.000 – 20.000 people are using the playground per week.”

This is a project reference of Berliner Seilfabrik, in Budapest, Hungary. If you would like to create a relevant custom-made solution in Greece or Cyprus, please do not hesitate to contact with us at info@eliteareas.gr