Our obsession with play-based learning has its roots in the mountains and is born out of a love for adventure. We are climbers, skiers, boaters, mountain bikers, and hikers, who explore the natural world with our family and friends.
True to these roots, our team of talented designers and fabricators use this intimacy with the outdoors to create nature-inspired playground equipment, climbing boulders, and interactive sculptures that are authentic down to the smallest detail.
ID Sculpture is the industry leader in meeting the developmental needs of children through climbing activities. We do this by combining carefully designed physical challenges with imaginative play and a commitment to our core principals.
ID Sculpture’s marriage of digital fabrication and handcraft allows us to create products that are unique to your needs while maintaining accurate detail at all scales.
Throughout the creative process, we use tried-and-true technology to make sure we’re creating structures and designs that match your expectations. We use laser scanning, Haptic modeling and 3D visualization to test our concepts three-dimensionally. Once a sculpture is approved, we use CNC machines to replicate the approved design. Finally, our talented team of artists hand-sculpt and finish the surface.
This method allows us to work quickly and accurately at a variety of scales while maintaining complete creative control.
At ID Sculpture, our obsession with play and experiential learning has its roots in the outdoor world. Founder Ian Glas developed a deep passion for rock climbing at an early age and took his skill and knowledge to the climbing-wall industry. Dissatisfied with the industry standard plywood and steel fabrication methods, Ian and a small group of like-minded makers, climbers, and inventors set about developing a more flexible design and fabrication system. When Ian and company hit upon a sculptable cementitious coating that could be applied to a contoured structural armature, they knew they were really on to something big.
In 2005, Ian founded Integrated Design Solutions, which quickly evolved into the company we are today, ID Sculpture. We have assembled a team of talented designers and craftsmen who employ a sophisticated quiver of tools to bring play and art together. True to our roots, our designs, aesthetic sensibilities, and the smallest details of our finished textures are inspired by nature. We are committed to creating custom interactive sculptures and environments that set the stage for imaginative play and foster generation-spanning interactions. We are always striving to capture that sense of freedom and wonder that inspired Ian Glas’s passion nearly three decades ago when he first laid hands on rock and climbed.
Today, we proudly design and build in our Rocky Mountain home of Gunnison, Colorado.
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