Projects
Thorndon Park Reserve
Location: Paradise, SA
Date: 2022
Project Type: Bespoke Design & Supply
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The customised design for the Thorndon Skywalker required the bridge connecting the two towers to span over the circulation pathway & allow enough clearance for play space users to pass underneath.
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The structural elements are galvanised steel, with timber bush pole cladding fixed to the vertical inground posts to retain the natural aesthetic character of the climber.
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The taller tower contains a series of scrambling platforms to the ground plane and the shorter tower includes a vertical net tube climb and talking tubes.
Pia's Place Whiteman Park
Location: Whiteman Park, WA
Date: 2020
Project Type: Bespoke Design, Supply & Install
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Working closely with our sister company, Nature Play Solutions, lyPa designed a number of bespoke play items for Pia’s Place in Whiteman Park.
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This included a Lighthouse with tube slide, constructed predominantly of steel frame and perforated steel panels.
We also created on-ground & raised nest climbers, an extra-long concrete embankment slide & a timber scramble with rope. A Ship Climber & Wagon Cubby were also designed to reflect the pioneering heritage of the area.
Noah’s Tower Rosehill Waters Estate
Location: Guildford, WA
Date: 2018
Project Type: Bespoke Design, Supply & Install
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When the the landscape design for Rosehill Waters Estate was being undertaken, we were commissioned to provide a design & construct package for the play space. The main tower/bridge structure was a late addition to the project, at the request of the client, & was fabricated off-site & craned into place in its various pieces.
The link bridges in this project were an innovative design that allowed for suspension bridges at height with fall risks eliminated. Play features in the climber included three tower structures, enclosed suspension link bridges, a 3.5m high tube slide, net climbing structure, 2 climbing towers.
Coombs Edgeworth Playground
Location: Coombs, ACT
Date: 2022
Project Type: Bespoke Design, Supply & Install
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Approached by the lead Landscape Architects, we created a highly detailed, bespoke climber for a play space the Coombs Edgeworth residential precinct in Canberra. We worked to ensure that the Landscape Architect's vision for the climber was executed, as evidenced in the final product. This included custom painted colour highlights throughout, a bespoke nest structure at the apex of the climber & extended tunnel connections linking back to lookouts at different levels of the park.
The design also included balance beams and logs, sand play table, talking tubes and a rain wheel.
Yingkapayi Park
Location: Leonora, WA
Date: 2021
Project Type: Bespoke Design, Supply & Install
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Yingkapayi (pronounced yin-gu-bay) in local Language means ‘to play’. Yingkapayi Park was initiated through a community led drive to upgrade the previous playground to a more interactive nature-based play area. Significant input from the community, in particular the Wangkatha people, is reflected in the design of the play space.
The bespoke Tower with tube slide was designed to integrate with the custom rope challenge. Large concrete eggs, double as seating & play features, prompt imaginative play & are intended to spark interest in outback fauna &extinct megafauna of the area.
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Shade shelters were designed to fit with the aesthetic of the play space and custom play equipment.
Shannon Reserve
Location: Surrey Hills, NSW
Date: 2021
Project Type: Bespoke design, supply & install
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This colourful playground was built to reflect the vibrant Surry Hills neighbourhood.
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The tower design was developed with the lead Landscape Architects, in collaboration with the City & incorporates two sections joined by a sturdy rope bridge. The towers are topped with perforated panels that have LED strip lighting, ensuring the playground is as beautiful at night-time as it is during the day.
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The project also incorporated our custom-made concrete slide, timber clambering ramp, clustered balance poles &stainless steel talking tubes.
Dubbo Regional Botanic Gardens
Location: Dubbo, NSW
Date: 2018
Project Type: Bespoke design, supply & install
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The play space was designed to enhance the visitor experience at the Regional Botanic Gardens & the majority of the play equipment was designed specifically for this project.
The Hillbilly climber was the largest of the pieces included in the design & has three pods set at different heights up a significant embankment. The pods are joined with enclosed, interconnecting suspension bridges & a range of net-climbing structures providing a range of play opportunities.
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Wilfred Taylor Reserve
Location: Morphett Vale, SA
Date: 2020
Project Type: Bespoke design & supply
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A Possum themed climber was developed by lyPa for Wilfred Taylor Reserve, within the City of Onkaparinga. Various net and rope challenges formed this journey-like design, along with ‘nest’ like structures and a tube slide.
For the farmed themed section of the play space we worked with the lead Landscape Architect to develop the farm-themed junior climber, which referenced a local historical farm, a bespoke Tractor climber & a variety of smaller farm themed items such as a Sheep Rocker.
