Diversity through standard

Play contai­ners on the rise

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KuKuk
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Contai­ners are stan­dar­dised. Play contai­ners have many advan­tages because of this.

Due to their stan­dar­dised form, contai­ners can be shipped to any place in the world for little money. Due to their stable frame cons­truc­tion and their flexi­bi­lity, they can also be used very well as a frame­work and outer shell for a variety of play and leisure faci­li­ties.

Play contai­ners like the KuKuk Box can be used both tempo­r­a­rily and perma­nently — and they are beco­ming more and more common.

Image: Game container in Belin­zona (2020)

Temporary use

When cities and muni­ci­pa­li­ties build or reno­vate (for example schools or kinder­gar­tens), they often need tempo­rary faci­li­ties.  These are usually located on dere­lict sites without child-friendly infra­struc­ture. A play container can quickly provide a solu­tion.

Just as well, the KuKuk Box can be dismantled and reas­sem­bled at a new loca­tion without much effort in case of a move or an upco­ming change of use of a site.

These play contai­ners are even used for events or for shorter periods of time.

KuKuk Box play contai­ners do not require a buil­ding permit and can also be rented on a tempo­rary basis.

Image: Instal­la­tion in Belin­zona (2020)

Permanent use

The KuKuk Box can also be used as a perma­nent, attrac­tive public play struc­ture. This is parti­cu­larly useful if a versa­tile play faci­lity is to be created in a short time and for little money.

Play contai­ners can be placed on all planned surfaces, inclu­ding roofs and car parks. They are extre­mely low-main­ten­ance. Time-consuming and costly expenses for plan­ning, appli­ca­tions, excava­tions and foun­da­tions are comple­tely elimi­nated.

Not bad either: the KuKuk Box can be set up in about two hours.

Image: Tempo­rary event area in Leuven (2020)

Equipment

The play contai­ners offer exci­ting areas for all age groups: There are clim­bing struc­tures up to the roof, roof houses, craw­ling tunnels, balan­cing courses, slides, play houses, seating plat­forms, sand­boxes, reading corners and much more. There is also seating for parents and nursery school teachers.

The KuKuk Box lives through its users. It is equipped with mate­rials such as round, square and sawn timber, fasteners, ropes and paints that allow it to be expanded as desired. This means that schools, kinder­gar­tens and social insti­tu­tions are free to design the play container them­selves.

The fully-fledged play­ground encou­rages a lot of move­ment and also offers retreat areas that allow inten­sive play — no matter what the weather.

Image: KuKuk Box in Iser­lohn (2020)

Design

ISO 668 applies to sea freight contai­ners, which have a frame struc­ture that can be used very well as a support element for the cons­truc­tion of foun­da­tion-free play­grounds. No excavated earth or concrete foun­da­tions cast for eter­nity are needed for cons­truc­tion. This saves money and time. It is also sustainable, of course.

The contai­ners are made of resistant COR-TEN steel. The walls are made of trape­zo­idal sheet steel, the floors are made of plywood.

The finish is high-quality and robust. The hardest woods and weather­proof, rust­proof stain­less steel connec­tions are used. For the fixtures, sapwood-free, weather-resistant robinia wood is used because of its natural robust­ness.

Image: KuKuk Box in Iser­lohn (2020)

Equipment

The slides are made of durable, UV-resistant stain­less steel (V2A).

The nets and ropes are custom-made from extre­mely strong Hercules rope (shea­thed steel ropes). This is a craft still prac­tised by only very few manu­fac­tu­rers in Germany. The mate­rial is charac­te­rised by high colour fast­ness and abra­sion resis­tance.

Coloured Plexi­glas gives the children an inten­sive colour expe­ri­ence. It looks very good, the mate­rial is weather and age resistant as well as enorm­ously UV resistant.

Image: tempo­rary play­ground in Lüne­burg

Safety and sustainability

The KuKuk Box play contai­ners are built accor­ding to the safety stan­dard DIN EN 1176 and are indi­vi­du­ally approved by inde­pen­dent, certi­fied experts (e.g. TüV) for public play areas.

When the play contai­ners are no longer to be used, the manu­fac­turer will take them back and create some­thing new from the mate­rials. Some call it a manu­fac­turer take-back guarantee, others call it sustaina­bi­lity.

Many cities, muni­ci­pa­li­ties and commu­ni­ties that started with the purchase of a KuKuk Box are now owners of several play contai­ners. Such a ” store ” also makes the plan­ning of recon­s­truc­tions or refur­bish­ments much easier.

Image: Primary school in Wolfs­burg (2020)

About KuKuk

The KuKuk Box was deve­loped by an expe­ri­enced team of artists, archi­tects, carpen­ters, metal­wor­kers and educa­tors.

The aim and result of this deve­lo­p­ment were and are inex­pen­sive and sustainable play faci­li­ties of ecolo­gical value, which at the same time meet the highest func­tional and aesthetic demands. Of course, they should also be fun.

This has worked out well. Very well, in fact.

Image: Large area of sand with play oppor­tu­ni­ties

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Project data

Play containers

KuKuk Box GmbH
Rosen­wies­straße 17
D — 70567 Stutt­gart

Photograph

KuKuk Box GmbH

Author

Johannes Bühl­be­cker
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