Kwinana Adventure Playground
WESTERN AUSTRALIA
The Kerang Water Park was designed to reflect some of the Gannawarra Shire’s celebrated flora and fauna and takes its inspiration from the nearby Murray and Loddon Rivers and the Gunbower State Forest.
It incorporates two distinct play pads each catering for a specific age group: 1-4 years and 5 to 10. Each section has its own activator.
The two pads are delineated by a magnificent River Red Gum Tree Trunk feature made from hand-carved concrete to resemble life-life bark and timber. Water showers from the wings of a custom-made White Bellied Sea Eagle feature perched upon the tree’s outstretched branch. A water blade beneath the branch sends water trickling onto a series of hand-carved concrete tree roots which form a series of broad natural looking steps that lead down to a waterfall set into a curved hand-carved rock wall.
The wall supports a couple of hand-carved shotcrete pillars upon which two custom-designed showering pelicans tip water on delighted patrons, the flow of which can be controlled by a hand-powered wheel in each pillar.
The pad surface comprises a number of finishes including coloured exposed aggregate, hand-carved shotcreted rocks and steps along with a giant hand-carved abalone feature complete with randomly sequenced ground sprays.
A hand carved tree trunk towers at the top of the play space with a randomly sequenced water blade set into an outstretched branch. A series of graduated tree roots have been hand carved to form a series of steps that lead down to the main section of the splash pad surface.
Designed by Josh Byrne & Associates and constructed by WFBD, the Kwinana Adventure Playground water park is destined to become one of WA’s most visited play spaces this summer.
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