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Climbing Wall & Fun Platform: Sakaramenta, Malawi

The realisation of a student's winning concept enabled his dream to come true. With standard components unavailable, the grips were a challenge to design. Despite this, the Climbing Wall & Fun Platform is a huge success.

Climbing Wall and Fun Platform An earthy brown finish was used to compliment the wooden platform and railings, and also the surrounding trees and nature, whilst fun brightly coloured grips and ropes and climbing snake grips sought to appeal to the children.	Climbing Wall and Fun Platform Bricks are carved by cutting and grinding them with a grinder to create a variety of grip shapes for the wall.
Climbing Wall and Fun Platform All bricks and grips are brought to site. The foundation is built to a certain height where the grips start at which point, the wall designer starts the positioning of the grips.	Climbing Wall and Fun Platform The wall is built one brick layer at a time and the bricks grips are positioned appropriately as the builder builds the wall.
Climbing Wall and Fun Platform Handmade scaffolding is used to reach the upper parts of the wall.	Climbing Wall and Fun Platform Once the wall has been built and plastered, the platform team come in to build the platform.
Climbing Wall and Fun Platform When everything is erected and the plaster has dried, the grips are painted brightly to give a beautiful appearance to the wall.	Climbing Wall and Fun Platform Some metal grips are used and shaped and painted like snakes to give the wall a fun element for the children.
Climbing Wall and Fun Platform	Climbing Wall and Fun Platform Ropes are attached to supports at the top to aid with climbing if required, or simply to be used as an alternative way for climbing the wall.
Climbing Wall and Fun Platform The team for the first wall and platform built at Hillview Primary School, BCA Hill, Blantyre. Everyone was thrilled with its success.

Climbing Wall and Fun Platform

An earthy brown finish was used to compliment the wooden platform and railings, and also the surrounding trees and nature, whilst fun brightly coloured grips and ropes and climbing snake grips sought to appeal to the children.

Climbing Wall and Fun Platform

Bricks are carved by cutting and grinding them with a grinder to create a variety of grip shapes for the wall.

Climbing Wall and Fun Platform

All bricks and grips are brought to site. The foundation is built to a certain height where the grips start at which point, the wall designer starts the positioning of the grips.

Climbing Wall and Fun Platform

The wall is built one brick layer at a time and the bricks grips are positioned appropriately as the builder builds the wall.

Climbing Wall and Fun Platform

Handmade scaffolding is used to reach the upper parts of the wall.

Climbing Wall and Fun Platform

Once the wall has been built and plastered, the platform team come in to build the platform.

Climbing Wall and Fun Platform

When everything is erected and the plaster has dried, the grips are painted brightly to give a beautiful appearance to the wall.

Climbing Wall and Fun Platform

Some metal grips are used and shaped and painted like snakes to give the wall a fun element for the children.

Climbing Wall and Fun Platform

Climbing Wall and Fun Platform

Ropes are attached to supports at the top to aid with climbing if required, or simply to be used as an alternative way for climbing the wall.

Climbing Wall and Fun Platform

The team for the first wall and platform built at Hillview Primary School, BCA Hill, Blantyre. Everyone was thrilled with its success.