PROJECT CASE STUDY
FLAGSTONE WATER PARK
Flagstone, QLD
Inspired by magical treehouses, this iconic destination invites children to climb, play and explore beneath a canopy of towering trees, with cascading rainfalls, splash buckets and water cannons adding excitement to every adventure.
DETAILS
Asset Owner: Logan City Council
Splashpark Equipment Design: Atlantis Liquid Dynamics
Specialist Splashpark Construction: Playscape Installations
Principal Contractor: Urbis
Project Budget: $2.8m
PROJECT OVERVIEW
Flagstone Water Park, a key feature of the Flagstone masterplanned development, serves as a vibrant centrepiece in the region’s vision for a thriving, self-sufficient city.
Opened in December 2019, the Flagstone Water Park is a vibrant hub within the Flagstone development, blending innovative design with expert engineering to offer a playful escape for locals and visitors alike, inviting all to explore, enjoy and discover the region’s charm.
Project Objectives
Flagstone is a master-planned community, located 60km south-west of Brisbane’s CBD. Atlantis Liquid Dynamics was engaged to design and construct an iconic waterpark; custom built to service the Flagstone Community, attract new families to the area and to create an ongoing community asset.
Concept Design
Inspired by magical treehouses, this iconic destination invites children to climb, play, and explore beneath a canopy of towering trees, with cascading rainfalls, splash buckets and water cannons adding excitement to every adventure.
Flagstone Water Park – Concept Design
Unique Features
Flagstone Water Park offers almost infinite play opportunities for people of all ages, packed into a small footprint. Known for its iconic three treehouse structures, each offering a unique water play experience, the water park is interconnected by a single watercourse, creating a cohesive water play experience.
The variety of interactive water features, from bubbling and spraying to falling and dumping water, keeps visitors of all ages engaged and entertained for hours, making it a truly dynamic and family-friendly destination.
Sustainable Water Design
To maintain water quality, high-tech specialist equipment is used to recirculate and save our precious water resources. All of the water used in the park is drained into underground balance tanks which then pass through an automatic filtration and sanitation system, ensuring only clean filtered water is delivered to the splash pad.
A further two raintrees decorate the site, providing quieter opportunities for younger children with cherry inspired tipping buckets and over 20 ground sprays.
Designed with safety in mind, the park prevents pooling water, allowing even the youngest visitors to play and explore with confidence.
SPLASHPARK FEATURES
Standing at over 10m high and reaching 10m wide, the central raintree provides ample opportunities to explore and experience thrilling new heights. This massive multilevel structure is overflowing with fun including two intense dumping buckets, a rainfall curtain surrounding the canopy and water cannons to encourage multi-level play.
Fabrication and Construction
The creation of Flagstone’s raintrees was a monumental task, with over four months spent fabricating its components off-site and conducting rigorous tests to ensure structural integrity. All elements were then protected with a marine-grade three-coat paint system, ensuring ultimate longevity.
On-site, extensive civil works and 10km of piping prepared the space, while a 9-metre-high concrete column was poured to support the 10-tonne steel canopy. With a 90-tonne crane, over 175 colourful hexagonal plates were meticulously installed. Futurewood cladding adorns the base of the tree to resemble bark, which is low maintenance and a highly durable solution for a product that is constantly underwater.
A mammoth Feat
It took more than 400 specialist engineering man-hours to design and develop the concept design into a workable model that could be constructed.
Intricate geometric mathematics and multiple 3D programs were utilised to create a roof structure capable of incorporating the hexagons, curved bars and node connections required to bear the structural and water loads of the completed raintrees.
In total, the roof structures contain more than 300 hexagonal façade plates and over 860 fixing bolts, with each piece individually engineered, crafted and installed to fit perfectly over the steel frame.
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