Big Pineapple Playground
Nature play in a Sunshine Coast destination setting
- Location
- Sunshine Coast, QLD
- Year
- 2024
- Discipline
- Education & Play
- Status
- Completed
Completed playground works combining planting, nature-play forms and robust timber structures for a family destination setting.
The Big Pineapple playground brief was to give a much-loved Sunshine Coast destination a real, weekend-scale nature play environment rather than an off-the-shelf equipment yard.
The design leans on the site's retained trees and slopes: a yellow tube slide is set into a planted embankment, timber balance logs and climbing elements pick up the level changes, and a rope bridge threads through the existing canopy so the play reads as part of the surrounding landscape.
Scope
- Nature-play concept and layout
- Embankment slide integration and site grading
- Timber play elements and shade planting
Design elements
- Yellow tube slide integrated into embankment planting
- Timber balance logs and climbing elements
- Rope bridge threaded through retained trees
- Nature-play zones with layered shrubs and shade
- Retained mature canopy as primary shade
Tree-integrated rope bridge at Big Pineapple Playground.
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Big Pineapple Playground — questions we're asked
- Big Pineapple Playground is located in Sunshine Coast, QLD.