Safe playground
Product + space
The new meeting place "Lokal 17" with a very special children's playground has been created in a former bank branch in Neerach. We were allowed to give free rein to our creativity in the empty vault: To match the three-storey playground with vault door, gold coin bath, bank counter, pulley and coin marble run, we designed a children's radio play with a crime story that encourages the children in the playground to search for fingerprints in the vault to catch the bank robbers. We involved children aged 7-12 in the creative process for both the design concept and the radio play.
Services
Design, concept and realization by Soda Studios.
Wooden construction by Werk36 GmbH.
Radio play production by Philip Merian. Thanks for the great cooperation Simon Aprile.
Client
Lokal17, Reformed Church Steinmaur & Neerach
First floor - Vault
Through a thick golden vault door, the children enter a money vault reminiscent of Scrooge McDuck's gold bath. Using shovels, the children can fill gold coins into money bags and pull them up from the vault to the second floor using the pulley.
Second floor - bank counter
On the second floor you will find the bank counter where the children can count and manage over 20,000 gold coins and 150 gold bars. Some of the gold bars have the bank robbers' fingerprints on them, which have to be found and compared with the fingerprint database. The bank room is monitored by a security camera.
Second floor - Prison
On the top floor there is a reading corner to relax in prison. Children can take a Polaroid photo for the guest book in front of the wall of criminals. In a wooden box are the disguise utensils for policemen, bank robbers, bank employees and reporters. Bags of money can be pulled up with the pulley. The individual coins then roll back down the gold coin marble run into the vault.
Radio play - The bank robbery in Neerach
We wrote and developed the radio play about the bank robbery in Neerach together with 7-11 year old children. We took the basic idea for the story and all the names of the characters directly from the children. Philip Merian and Céline Schulthess supported us in optimizing the storyline, the production and the studio recordings.
