Pisgah View Community Playground | Asheville Design Center

Project Overview

After completing a successful playground project in the Klondyke Community in 2012, ADC is at it again. This time we’re working with the Pisgah View community in West Asheville–our design process kicked off in September. ADC is thrilled to have many of our Klondyke partners with us again, as well as some new supporters that are making this project possible.

We couldn’t do this project without our volunteer designers from Site Design Studio (Julie & Jason Gilliland) and Mathews Architecture (Chip Howell). The Housing Authority of the City of Asheville is once again supporting our effort, allowing us to partner with Green Opportunities to train and hire residents to construct the playground.

We also are extremely grateful to have local playground providers contributing equipment and their expertise to the effort: Kevin Houk of Playworld Preferred and Evelyn Anderson of Asheville Playgrounds.

It is inspiring to see so many facets of our community come together to help build a new playspace for the children of Pisgah View Apartments. If you’d like to support the effort, please consider making a donation to ADC.

Project Gallery

PVA Playground Design Workshop

Kids share ideas for their dream playground with architect Chip Howell.

PVA Playground Design Workshop

Our design team will use the children's ideas (e.g., gopher holes, spider webs) to inspire a new playground behind Pisgah View's Community Center.

Pisgah View's Kids

Children hanging out on an aging existing structure, which we'll salvage and include in our new designs.

Pisgah View Playground Concept

Residents Check Out Designs

Children and parents review the designs for the playground--the product of our community workshop. Children asked for gopher holes and spider webs...

Existing conditions

Pisgah View's playground when we started.

The GO Crew

Our work crew consisted of (L-R) Site Design Studio's Jason Gilliland, Karim Johnson, Mack Taylor, Patrick Eddings and Mathews Architecture's Chip Howell (not pictured).

Assembling the Clubhouse

We worked with the existing play structure to build a new clubhouse for the kids, complete with a spiral slide, clatter bridge, monkey bars and climbers.