Botanic Gardens Children’s Center. Harvard University

Located on Harvard University’s Cambridge campus, the Botanic Gardens Children’s Center was looking to transform their outdoor play areas for their toddlers and preschoolers into a more natural play space that would offer more opportunities for the children to explore. studioMLA Architects worked with the staff and director to reinvent their play area as a place to discover nature and explore. The existing play area was transformed into a natural environment which includes a dry streambed fed by water from a pump and shaded by Birch trees.

Water sprays were added to a large sand area providing opportunities for endless exploration of water, sand, and mud. studioMLA Architects also designed a sensory and natural play environment for their infants and toddlers on their upper deck of the Center.

Services Provided

Landscape architecture, outdoor playspace design.

*Project completed as studioMLA Architects prior to acquisition by Ashley McGraw Architects