Comments on: Playground Fence

By: miles

miles — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 02:15:46 +0000

like the seating hubs, perfect for mobile texters, and “of the minute phone calls”, the bench how ever….there goes the legs of any who do not BEWARE. should have played around witht the seeting, and the horizontal character of the design. Why not a park bench as apposed to a giant protruding shape. Then the bums dont have to feel so exposed:P

By: Mississauga Fence

Mississauga Fence — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 06:47:05 +0000

Cool design idea, it would need to be toned down a little before it became a comercial solution for a fence style.

By: Sam

Sam — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 00:26:57 +0000

I’ve had the pleasure to see one of those and experience it in person, I think design wise it’s visually appealing, however and this is a big HOWEVER. It hurts like hell to sit/lay down on one of those things. not practical, only good for eye candy.

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 21:03:23 +0000

wow, I didn’t realize so many people would like something so stupid and impractical, why don’t we get rid of all the engineers in the world and just get little kids to design everything

By: stistaw

stistaw — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 15:01:49 +0000

jipiee, love it:)
theres a bench/fence combination by dutch architects west8 too
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ok2piter/1265285474/

and about dangerous, well look there is a…oh my god…my kid touches a TREE!! help a dangerous monsterplay… not even statically save!
come on i agree with josh, its part of beeing kid…but if you dont learn such stuff as kid it might be dangerous for you as grown up.

By: Josh

Josh — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 19:29:33 +0000

Oh my gosh has the world gone mad? This is a fantastic piece of design why are people so quick to find the negative in something good? Because they wished they had come up it themselves no doubt. Get real, this is great! Hey Rex, that’s why america is full of people who don’t have the ability to take responsibility for their actions, it must always be someone else’s fault. Kids get hurt – that’s part of being a kid.

“it’s a playground for god’s sake”.

By: Emilie

Emilie — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 00:45:20 +0000

yeah its dangerous but thinner gaps in the bars could solve it fairly easily or padding the seats with cushions. its a playground for gods sake. the worst anyone can do is rip up the grass. personally if i was 8 years old and full of life the idea of sitting IN a fence would just blow my mind

By: Rex

Rex — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 16:36:45 +0000

I am a New Yorker who has built a large number of play spaces over the years.

New York City and the United States is the most litigious society on the planet backed by courts who firmly believe in our absolute responsibly to produce a “risk free” society.

Given our professonal responsibility to due dilegence when assessing risk , all I can see in this object is a compound fracture of a child’s fibula. It may never happen. But the thought that it could, ruins my respect for its beauty in this place and for this use.

By: Fili

Fili — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 21:40:07 +0000

I know I’m getting old because the first thing that popped through my mind was “someone’s kid could get his or her foot stuck!!11″

By: dave

dave — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 03:23:45 +0000

This is an interesting and pretty object. But not good design. A playground is something kids are supposed to climb on and around. A fence is something kids should not climb on or around. Why design a fence that encourages kids to climb over it? This sort of thinking could only be dutch!

Dave

By: greg

greg — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:44:33 +0000

There is wood between the bars. Look at a picture before complaining. Its a nice idea for a fence.

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By: GREG

GREG — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 09:17:51 +0000

See, as an injury prone person, I see protruding bars like this as a death trap. I can just hear the broken ankles snapping and the kids getting stuck. Pessimist? Nah… I’ve just been there and done that.

By: Oktay

Oktay — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 10:08:21 +0000

#1 , the bars are dangerous, kids can break their ankles

Look closer, there are wooden planks filing the gaps between the bars.

#2, you can bike at night on that street

This is the inside of the playground, nothing is pointing outwards to the street side

#3 the fence is easy to scale, defeats the purpose

This is not a prison, it’s a playground. It has a gate which people can already use to get in and out. The fence is there to contain the kids in case they want to run off to the street. Traffic and things.

By: Jesse

Jesse — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 01:56:15 +0000

I think you can climb through it

By: brad

brad — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 01:36:16 +0000

correction – “their monkey bars”

By: brad

brad — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 01:34:59 +0000

the people commenting here are are either very anxious or very litigious (or both) … don’t you remember when kids were allowed to learn about things through experience rather than overbearing parental control and yet, somehow, we all survived. After watching my kids play on there monkey bars at home I can’t see them being fooled by a few horizontal bars..as for letting small kids play in a park unsupervised …those days are over friends.

By: AJ

AJ — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 23:10:09 +0000

Looks nice, but not practical as a fence.. It makes it just so much easier to climb over!

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 20:39:43 +0000

Except that the little kids who fall over while standing between the metal bars and break their legs. And it is a convenient ladder to help them get out of the park unnoticed.

By: scott

scott — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 20:38:29 +0000

not to poo poo a very creative idea, but i’m just thinking, if a kid puts a leg in between those bars, and falls, thats an instant broken leg at least….I’m just looking from another angle I guess…probably the same angle as most local govts.