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PROJECT

Overview of the timber and rope swing bridge,
concrete slide and Fibonacci spiral stream section

SPIER Spier Wine Farm in Stellenbosch recently
enhanced its offering to visitors with
ELEMENTAL the addition of a children’s play garden.

Contours Landscapes received a silver
PLAY GARDEN award in the 2022 SALI Awards of

Excellence for the construction and
installation of the garden. The project was
Project Team entered in two categories - Landscape
Client: Spier Wine Farm
Landscape Architect: Construction with Design by Others and
Danielle Croly Landscape Architects (DCLA)
Main Contractor: Contours Landscapes Specialised Landscape Construction.

andscape architect Danielle Croly was follow this rule, such as the spiral shape of children into the spaces in order to connect
briefed by the client to design a play a sea shell, the arrangement of leaves on a with the individual elements. Croly says
Lgarden involving the four elements branch or the petals of some flowers such she also interpreted the water way as
of earth, air, fire and water. These were as daisies and sunflowers. representing a river bed originating from
to be represented in four quadrants and a waterfall in the mounds of the earth
connected by a waterway in the shape of A further stipulation of the brief was to quadrant, and culminating in the water
USE-IT is a special purpose vehicle, designed to act as a cluster for the the Fibonacci sequence – a set of numbers bring this concept to life by developing quadrant through a raised channel with
cascading levels, sluice gates and a whirling
the design concept and detailing each
where each one is the sum of the two
waste materials recovery industry in eThekwini Municipality preceding ones. Many patterns in nature quadrant with interactive features to draw spiral well point.
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