Kimberley Park State School
Playground area rework along the school creek line
- Location
- Queensland
- Year
- 2024
- Discipline
- Education & Play
- Status
- Completed
- Client
- Fleetwood / Kimberley Park State School
A school play environment with completed works and a landscape concept for the playground area, including planted embankments, seating and shaded gathering spaces.
The Kimberley Park landscape concept reworks a hard-edged school playground into a soft, planted play environment following the creek line.
Planted embankments, shaded seating and layered gathering spaces let the play area double as an everyday outdoor classroom while keeping supervision sightlines clear.
Scope
- Playground area landscape concept — issue B (27/04/23)
- Planting palette and sand / water play integration
- Rainwater collection strategy tied to hand pump play
Design elements
- Sand, water and natural play elements
- Terraced sandstone stone seat walls and steps
- Boulder-lined and waterproofed overland flow channel
- Rainwater tanks feeding a hand pump water play line
- New flat grass terraces and mulched planted banks
- Existing shrubs retained and pruned; existing trees preserved
Materials
- 500 x 500 sandstone dimension blocks
- Broom-finish grey concrete paths (standard mix)
- Strong-wearing short-pile artificial grass paths
- Sandstone retaining walls
Planting palette
Species selected from the Kimberley Park State School planting schedule.
- Midyim Berry
- Waterfall Plant
- Dwarf Baeckea
- Giant Candles
- Birds Nest Fern
- Cunjevoi
- Bracken Fern
- Old Man Banksia
- Water Gum
- Native Lassiandra
- Wallum Phebalium
- Forest Pittosporum
- Swamp Lily
- Broad Leafed Palm Lily
- Creeping BoobiallaMyoporum boninense
- Sarsaparilla VineHardenbergia violacea
- Little Con LomandraLomandra confertifolia
- Green Island FigFicus macrocarpa
- Common RushJuncus usitatus
- Tussock GrassPoa labilliardieri
- No Mow GrassZoysia tenuifolia
Kimberley Park State School — landscape concept sheet 2.
Kimberley Park State School — landscape concept sheet 3.
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Kimberley Park State School — questions we're asked
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