Playground in the Australian Bush
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A playground In the Australian bush with a giant bumble worm and a working windmill to animate a seat. Design, model render by myself. Sketchup/TM/Pixir
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Where do you get foilage like this?
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Never going to happen in Oz, far too many rocks and hard places for little johnny to hurt himself/herself/themselves, needs more cotton wool to satisfy OHnS. My god that poor victim is exiting the slide onto a slope, she could turn an ankle. Oh the horror...
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@box said:
Never going to happen in Oz, far too many rocks and hard places for little johnny to hurt himself/herself/themselves, needs more cotton wool to satisfy OHnS. My god that poor victim is exiting the slide onto a slope, she could turn an ankle. Oh the horror...
Guess I didn’t look close enough or looked at the wrong things.
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Top notch!
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@box said:
Never going to happen in Oz, far too many rocks and hard places for little johnny to hurt himself/herself/themselves, needs more cotton wool to satisfy OHnS. My god that poor victim is exiting the slide onto a slope, she could turn an ankle. Oh the horror...
Hi Box, a very thoughtful response indeed. I have been a playground design specialist for about 10 years in my life, and have national accreditation for playground safety auditing. I think you are completely correct in questioning playground design. We have learnt that we are not switching on the part of the brain in children at a young age for risk assessment due to them being wrapped in cotton wool. They need to learn about the dangers that exist in nature through hurting themselves whilst they are young. A friend of mine told me his 3 year old had broken his arm on a firemans pole on a playground. I congratulated him. He looked stunned. I told him that his child had learned risk assessment. And that is a lesson he will carry for the rest of his life. The fundamental point in playground safety and nature play is that a child may hurt themselves on playgrounds as long as it is not an organ injury. We are not activating risk assessment in our young to their detriment in later life. Of course, most CEO's only worry about litigation and not human development. The Scandinavians were the first to recognise this and we are very slowly catching on. but way too slowly. The playgrond in my render has complaint fall zones, including the slide exit which has a default fall zone of 2M. You mat note that there is a barrier at the first flange on the slide. That is to stop kids crawling on top of the slide tube so they could get way to high and fall on to the rocks below......how ever that concept is quite clever as it is also designed that if a child is strong enough and has the skills to mount the slide tube from the other side they have passed the filter mechanism and can do so as "unintended access" a lot has been considered.
Below is a playground I designed for small children..
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@ntxdave said:
@box said:
Never going to happen in Oz, far too many rocks and hard places for little johnny to hurt himself/herself/themselves, needs more cotton wool to satisfy OHnS. My god that poor victim is exiting the slide onto a slope, she could turn an ankle. Oh the horror...
Guess I didn’t look close enough or looked at the wrong things.
I think what box was saying is that would be a cool design but, in some country's we are wrapping our kids in cotton wool, to there detriment
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@ntxdave said:
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Where do you get foilage like this?
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Swap the kids out for politicians and you are on a winner mate.
The render itself is good imho.
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Excellent work as always.
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