Completed project
Kintore Way Nursery Water Wall
Southwark, London · Nursery
A hand-built water wall with channels, pumps and vessels for pouring, damming and experimenting, designed for two- to five-year-olds in a nursery garden.
Water wall • Channels • Sand and digging area
The starting point
The brief
A nursery garden for two- to five-year-olds needing hands-on, open-ended play the youngest children could reach and control.
What we built
In the finished space
- Hand-built timber water wall
- Channels, dams and pouring vessels
- Hand pump at child height
- Adjacent sand and digging area
How it's used
The difference it makes
Very young children can pour, dam, redirect and experiment on their own terms, with adults nearby rather than leading.
Ways to play
The play this space supports.
We use the recognised types of play as a design lens rather than a checklist, so a single structure can offer several very different kinds of play.
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