Riverside Park Adventure Playground is an exciting playground unique to Swan Hill that showcases artwork and the living culture of the region’s First Nations communities.
Site: Riverside Park, Monash Drive, Swan Hill, Victoria 3585
Client: Swan Hill Rural City Council
Landscape Architect: Thomson Hay Landscape Architects
Age Range: from 1 year old
Adventure Playground Completed: 2019
Designed, documented and constructed in 2019, the Riverside Park Adventure Playground is a well-used and comfortable playspace for the local community and visitors to Swan Hill. The design of the playground by Thomson Hay Landscape Architects embraces the reuse of industrial and agricultural materials from the district.
Standing tall within the playground at 8.7 metres high, is Proludic’s nature-inspired Kanopé Tree Tower. This impressive play structure boasts enhanced play features that engage children in fun, active and imaginative play.
To help strengthen the community’s connection with the playground, Swan-Hill-born indigenous artist, Sandra Kropinyeri, was engaged by Swan Hill Rural City Council to design artwork for the Kanopé tower and other park features. Proludic’s expertise with our award-winning Grafic Games technique was then employed to implement the artwork on our Kanopé Tree Tower.
Sandra Kropinyeri’s artwork shares traditional stories of the Swan Hill region, and highlights the local fauna. Ground-dwelling and flightless creatures feature on the panels of the lowest level playhouse of the tower, climbing marsupials and reptiles feature on the playhouse above, then small birds and insects, and finally cockatoos and kookaburras are displayed on the highest playhouse closest to the sky.
A customised colour palette of earthy tones was designed for the Kanopé Tree Tower by Thompson Hay Landscape Architects, to complement the landscape character of the local environment of the Swan Hill region.
Proludic also provided a two-bay swing set (J496) which comprises an inclusive Pod seat, a toddler’s seat and junior seat, enabling children of different ages to enjoy the fun sensation of swinging together.
The playground also includes other play equipment including a double flying fox, sandpit, natural play elements, as well as a custom-designed barbecue shelter and park furniture.
For information about the Inclusive Playspace that was incorporated into Riverside Park in 2022 click here.
“The playground is an exciting addition to the growing list of attractions at Riverside Park. This adventure playground will be a real highlight” Mayor Bill Moar, Swan Hill Rural City Council, 2019
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