Académie Lafayette
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We couldn’t have asked for a better collaboration or end result. Zahner took something complex and made it easy.
Jonathon KemnitizerIDSA.
Académie Lafayette Playground
Académie Lafayette Playground is a KEM Studio-designed playspace for students which features a slide manufactured and donated by Zahner. Académie Lafayette is a French immersion public school operating on multiple campuses in Kansas City serving grades K-8.
To maximize the school’s budget, the forms of the playground were designed to be easily built by volunteers and found/recycled objects + donations were utilized (phase one). Through fundraising and a successful crowdfunding campaign the slide/tunnel/climbing wall was completed as a second phase in Fall 2013.
![Académie Lafayette students enjoy the new slide in Kansas City.](https://e5awgs3wuhi.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/24140401/academielafayetteplayground_11-scaled.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&quality=92&webp=85&w=1500&ssl=1)
Académie lafayette students enjoy the new slide in kansas city
Photo @ ahram park
![Installers add plywood ribs to the Zahner-manufactured structure.](https://e5awgs3wuhi.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/24140357/slide-structure.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&quality=92&webp=85&w=1500&ssl=1)
Installers add plywood ribs to the Zahner-manufactured structure.
Photo courtesy KEM Studio.
![Children at Académie Lafayette play underneath the slide made by Zahner.](https://e5awgs3wuhi.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/24140352/academielafayetteplayground_03-scaled.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&quality=92&webp=85&w=1500&ssl=1)
children at Académie lafayette play underneath the slide made by zahner.
Photo @ ahram park
![Designer's rendering of the new playground at Academie Lafayette.](https://e5awgs3wuhi.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/24140348/kemstudio_academielafayette_longanplayground_d_v1_02_29_12-scaled.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&quality=92&webp=85&w=1500&ssl=1)
Designer’s rendering of the new playground at a academie lafayette
Image courtesy kem studio.