Wavering gardens (De Wiebeltuinen)
| Project | Design of two special playgrounds |
| Location | Westeraam, Elst municipality |
| Client | Overbetuwe municipality |
| Year | 2000 – 2006 |
The gardens are in a new residential area, surrounded by buildings and back gardens, separated by a road. The gardens are each around 40 x 60 metres in size. They are designed as identical twins with differences in details, and are intended as playgrounds and areas for walking and spending time.
Each garden has a layout of diagonal paths planted with a grid of fruit trees with more traditional genuses of apples and pears: the traditionally Dutch ‘Notaris’ apple and Doyenne de Comice pears. A relief has been created in the ground, forming ‘hills and dales’. The paths and trees move with the different levels of the garden, giving the impression that the garden is wavering. There is a playground for children, and two special places for the neighbourhood: people can cycle there, skate and picnic. In the spring this haven is a beautiful garden full of different blossoms, and in the autumn there is the harvest!