The space nobody uses could be the one everyone talks about
Landscape play environments built around colour, form, and story.
Three spaces every principal recognises
The Concrete Yard
Hard, flat, grey. The most common problem space in NZ primary schools, and one of the easiest to fix.
The Dead Zone
Mud in winter, dust in summer, nothing grows. The space every school has quietly written off.
The Tired Centrepiece
Once the heart of the school, now brown, bare, and ignored. Ready to be the heart again.
A Creo Space isn't a playground in the traditional sense. There's no fixed equipment list and no standard layout.
It's a surfacing-led, mound-featured landscape, shaped around your site and your school's story. Whether it's a concrete yard nobody enjoys, a patch under the trees where nothing grows, or an old centrepiece that's lost its shine, a Creo Space turns it into an all-weather space kids are drawn to every single break.
You bring the vision for what your school could be. We look after the whole lot, from earthworks and tidy up through to surfacing, equipment, and a finished, ready to use space.
The concrete yard
From bruised knees to somewhere kids want to be
More than four hundred kids on bare concrete is a recipe for grazed knees and a yard that does nothing. We turned Sunnyvale’s concrete yard into a colourful, usable space its students actually want to be in.
Same footprint, completely different experience underfoot.
Before
After
700 students · full yard resurface
Approximate investment 200k
Mud in winter. Dust in summer. Nobody there.
Every school has one — the patch under the trees where the grass gave up years ago. It’s a drainage and surface problem more than a design one, often solved with our Pour’n’Play surfacing.
Mountview’s is now one of the spaces students head straight for.
Before
After
Approximate investment 350k
It used to be the heart of the school
The bark got tired, the timber rotted, and nothing would grow. Western Heights called it an absolute eyesore. We kept the trees, transformed everything else, and brought the space back to life.
It’s now flooded with kids every single break.
Before
After
Approximate investment 250k
Tell us about your space
You already know which space this is. You walk past it every day.
We've transformed spaces like these at schools all over the country. All you need is the desire to change it. We'll take care of the rest.
