Jury comment
The nature-based Hinterland Adventure Playground successfully draws on the site’s industrial and landscape character, showcasing considered material reuse. The design’s topographic and tectonic response provides prospect and hydraulic conveyance and creates a safe, resilient parkland. The project offers a range of interconnected play experiences, from quiet spaces of low activity to highly active adventure play zones, for a range of ages and abilities. The jury commends the design team’s early decision to provide only natural shade canopy, realised though shade analysis and long-range advanced tree procurement, as well as the council’s commitment to that vision.
Hinterland Adventure Playground was built in Noosa, Queensland on the land of the Kabi Kabi/Gubbi Gubbi people.
Project credits
Design practice Urbis Architect Robinson Architects Flood modelling consultant Bligh Tanner Landscape contractors Aspect Contractors Photographer Noosa Shire Council
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