DESIGN and CONSTRUCTION
We are a design and construct firm, as well as offering design services only. Each project is uniquely designed to place and community. A focus of our work is to collaborate with communities in the designing and facilitating of their nature play environment.
We provide a Design service based on over 20yrs experience in designing and constructing Nature Based Play projects. All our designs are unique, responding to place and based on a foundation of proven design, broad based play outcomes and nature inspired forms.
We design our Nature-based Spaces for our prime users, the kids, and our nature playgrounds positively support their childhood development.
Collaborate. Community. Place.
Our designs and services include:
Collaborative Design – with client and local community
Proven Design – based on nature, mirroring natural forms and environment
Outdoor Learning Design – Educational and Cultural elements
Aboriginal Cultural Design – Cultural Learning elements
Documentation and Research – grants and research analysis
Award Winning Designs – Industry Awards for selected designs
Our wide range of clients include:
primary and secondary schools
early learning centres
kindys and playgroups
community groups
local governments
landscape architects
urban and rural developers
Collaborative Design
We collaborate closely with the client and community on design elements, ensuring the final design enhances the site and meets client’s needs.
We cater for all budgets and sites, and can design around client budgets, ensuring final design and construction will maximise outcomes within budget.
Design work is usually committed to before project commencement.
” NBP guided me in working out what materials, machinery, equipment, manpower and funding/sponsorship was required to complete the project. It was a partnership that required a lot of trust to ensure we could synchronise all resources and efforts for a short build period. If you are considering a project of this type, dont go past NBP! They really believe in the value and magic of community led placemaking, and are a wonderful bunch!”
Trish Flower – Djiljit Mia Community Gathering Place, Dunsborough
Proven Design
Within our Nature Based Play designs, we include a wide range of Nature Play, musical and educational elements including:
Balance logs and wobble boards
Vestibular motion
Timber cubbies and temporal play
Musical items, eg wooden drums; sound tubes
Feature timber pieces and totem poles
Sitting, balancing and feature rocks
Rope balancing and swinging play
Water play
Our Designs range from:
Small simple Nature Play Spaces,
Medium sized Nature Playgrounds,
Larger integrated Nature Play Adventure Scapes.
Costs range from <$20k for small projects; $20k – $100k for medium; over $100k for larger projects.
Outdoor Learning Design
As part of the innovative Nature Based Play design, we can also go beyond Nature Playgrounds, incorporating Outdoor Learning, Educational and Cultural Design elements. Utilising the Nature Space for outdoor learning provides added opportunities for schools and communities beyond play.
Outdoor Learning areas give teachers and carers a nature ‘classroom’ to conduct outdoor learning and education for the kids. Nature Based Play can create these spaces to meet client requirements and providing an enriched outdoor learning space for ongoing cultural and natural educational incursions.
Cultural Design involves incorporating local culture within the design, and sharing stories of the local area with the children and adults who use the Nature Space. It can be from symbolising the local community’s ideals and sense of place, through to traditional local Aboriginal Culture.
Indigenous Cultural Design
NBP works with local Aboriginal Communities to incorporate Indigenous Cultural Design into the nature based space. In consultation with local Elders, elements of local Indigenous culture can be included to enhance the site and offer a place for the community to interact, learn and connect.
Documentation and Research
As part of our design service NBP can support clients and communities with grant opportunities by providing information and documentation on Nature Based Play. We also conduct research to analyse the usage and benefits of our Nature Spaces, to measure kids’ play and learning outcomes. This research helps to inform innovative design and provides great feedback to schools and communities that have installed Nature Based Play Spaces.
