New York Play Unit by Cemer Design Center is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2024 A' Design Award in Playground Equipment, Play Structures and Public Park Design Competition Category.
IronPlayground· 2024
New York Play Unit
Client: Cemer Playground Equipments
A' Design Award Winner in Playground Category
Verified Award Winner
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About New York Play Unit
New York offers kids to take part in play activities. The product mostly consists of 2D and 3D climbing ropes. When kidsclimb, theirmotor abilities, hand-eye coordination, and height phobia all considerably improve thanks to thedesigns. Its integrated rung climbing station and rubber stepper disks ensure that kids' physical development is improved as they play. Through polycarbonate panels featuring a silhouette of New York, the product brings in sunlight and the warmth of nature.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award
New York Play Unit is an Iron A' Design Award winner, a prestigious recognition granted to good designs that meet the professional and industrial requirements expected from well-designed creations. Iron winners demonstrate great skill, high specialization, expert understanding, and creative capacity of their creators. New York Play Unit is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished creation that is practical and innovative. This Iron A' Design Award-winning design integrates industry best practices and has competent technical characteristics linked with know-how and talent. New York Play Unit is respected for its thoroughness and is designed to provide quality of life improvements that help make the world a better place.
Interviews
Design Interview
What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?
The main principle behind our design, "New York," is to provide children with a playful and engaging environment inspired by the iconic imagery of New York City. The idea stemmed from creating a structure that not only offers physical challenges through climbing elements but also stimulates imaginative play with its thematic design.
What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?
Our main focus in designing this work was to blend the unique shape and colors of an apple, symbolizing New York City, with functional play elements that enhance children's physical and cognitive development. We aimed to achieve a design that encourages active play, improves motor skills, and fosters creativity through role-playing opportunities.
What are your future plans for this award winning design?
Our future plans for this award-winning design include exploring opportunities to partner with playground equipment distributors worldwide to bring the "New York Play Unit" to more parks, schools, and public spaces. We aim to expand its availability and impact by catering to diverse global markets.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- New York provides children with an opportunity to engage in play activities. 3d climbing design helps children improve their motor skills, hand eye coordination and wariness of heights significantly while climbing. It features rubber stepper disks and a rung climbing station integrated into the play setup which ensure improvement in childrens physical development. The product lets sunshine in as well as the warmth of nature via polycarbonate panels of a New York silhouette.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Dimensions: Width 8,0 m x Depth 7,95 m x Height 5,95 m
Age group: 5 plus
Capacity: 116
Fall height: 2,85 m
Safety area: 108,7 m2 - Tags
- Play, Playground, Rope, Slide, Climbing, Balance, Hanging, Socialize, Equality, Play Value, Apple, New York
- Production Technology
- The ropes are formed by 6 strands of galvanized wires and a core either steel or fiber. Each strand is tightly braided with polyester which is adhered to galvanized wires with a patented method. With the patented tensioning system of ropes, stretching process is performed from outside providing an easier assembly. Metal parts are comprised of st 37 steel with a 3 step metal finish sandblasting and solvent free zinc primer coating, electrostatic powder paint application.
- Design Challenge
- In the design of New York, the hardest part was to capture apple shape and make the cover interchangeable. Also adapting the design with all the materials, the company can provide was another obstacle on our parts. Using bend shapes quite often usually created problems in the production of design but our design team came though it with hard work and research. The biggest challenge was to insert a 3d rope inside the construction and create a safety measured product for children to play in.
- Research
- Playgrounds have tremendous effects on the physical, social, and psychological improvement of children. To create the best environment for children various research has been done to ensure they would come across the safest conditions as well as develop their physical and social skills. Investigations have been made between the ages of 2 to 12, to understand the behaviors of children better and design the best playground they would be comfortable to play in while enhancing their experience.
- Inspiration
- New York is a play unit that aims to offer children many ways of fun with its distinctive form and colours. The product consists of several rope climbing components and polycarbonate panels with a New York silhouette. The idea is to make kids feel as if they were in an apple while engaging an activity that is full of excitement.
- Project Duration
- The project exhibited in Atrax fair in Istanbul, Turkey. The exhibition was held in January 2024.
The project exhibited in Fsb in Cologne, Germany. The exhibition was held in October 2023. - Operation Flow
- With its circular shape and easily reachable play stations, kids can decide to play from any side of the product. The first interaction happens with climbing and balance stations or children can choose to start climbing the three-dimensional rope inside the sphere. The two dimensional rope that surrounds the sphere can function as climbing and resting. If children look up, they will come across colorful and half transparent polycarbonate panels where they can play light and role playing games.
- Patents
- Patented. TR14687. Cemer Kent Ekipmanlari.2016
Patented. EP17862868.1. Cemer Kent Ekipmanlari.2021
Patent Pending. TR012672. Cemer Kent Ekipmanlari.2021 - Team Members
- Cemer Design Center
- Image Credits
- Cemer Playground Equipments
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