PLAYWORK SITE PLAN

Site Plan & Play Components CONVEYOR CLIMB & SLIDE TIRE TRAIL

PULL SWING

BACKHOE

TOWER CLIMB

PUSHBOAT: PROPELLORS, RUDDERS, BIG ROPE SWING, ADAPTABLE SWING

CULVERT SLIDE & CRAWL STEAMER NET ADVENTURE

CHAIN HOIST JIB CRANE WOBBLY LOGS WOBBLY PLATFORM CANOPY WALK & NET PLAY

THE OVERLOOK

THE RIVER

CONTAINER HORIZONTAL CLIMB

THE BIG DIG

LOG JAM CLIMB PILING WALK

OVERLOOK CANOPY & RAMP CONTAINER TUNNEL & VIEWING BINOCULARS

EVENT BUILDING

RESTROOMS BALL CONVEYORS EXCAVATOR

BOULDER SCRAMBLE & DUMP TRUCK SLIDES

PIER BENCHES WAVE MOUNDS AND WAVE SLIDE

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The River - Experiential Play Components CHAIN HOIST • Visitors pull on a loop chain connected to a large industrial winch to raise and lower a heavy length of anchor chain using mechanical advantage • Gives visitors the opportunity to use an authentic piece of machinery used on a working waterfront • Chain is in a stainless steel mesh enclosure shaped like the bow of a ship • ADA accessible

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The River - Experiential Play Components JIB CRANE • Visitor operate a real jib crane using hand-cranks to lift small tires and place and stack them on targets painted on the ground • Visitors can work solo or with others creating their own games and challenges.

• ADA accessible

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The River - Experiential Play Components WOBBLY LOGS AND PLATFORM • Visitors walk on logs mounted on car springs and connected end to end with universal joints. As one or more visitors walk along the logs the logs move up and down.

• Visitors can transfer from a wheelchair onto this low platform that is mounted on a car spring.

• WOBBLY PLATFORM is ADA accessible and a complimentary activity to the Wobbly Logs

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The River - Experiential Play Components LOG JAM AND PILING WALK • Visitors choose different routes through a series of criscrossing wood poles and low round concrete pilings • Several larger diameter pilings at ADA transfer height offer an accessible experience • PILING WALK is ADA accessible

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The River - Experiential Play Components CONTAINER HORIZONTAL CLIMB • Visitors are challenged to traverse all four sides of the container walls by carefully planning where to place their feet on various types of footholds and hand holds.

• One side of the container is a sloped wall for an easier challenge but the other three sides have holds on a vertical surface. Navigating around the corners of the container is an additional challenge

EVERY STRUCTURE TO BE VENTED FOR FLOW-THRU

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The River - Experiential Play Components PULL SWING • Visitors can sit astride a loop of large-diameter rope and swing back and forth • While they do this, other visitors can raise and lower the moving swing using the mechanical advantage of an overhead pulley

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The River - Experiential Play Components PUSHBOAT STERN: PROPELLOR CRANK, RUDDER TURN • The stern of an authentic river pushboat is mounted 10’ feet in the air giving visitors an unusual view of a Louisville icon. Within the open hull visitors can see bulkheads and propeller shafts and dramatic night lighting will highlight the construction details • Using mechanical advantage visitors will turn the large propellers with a hand crank • In addition to the rotating propeller, the crank mechanism and the opposite side of the rotating propeller shaft will be visible.

• Using mechanical advantage visitors will turn the large rudders left and right with a ship’s wheel • The mechanism that connects the wheel to the rudder will be partially visible, allowing kids to see how they can affect something bigger than themselves and overhead.

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The River - Experiential Play Components PUSHBOAT STERN: BIG ROPE SWING & ADAPTABLE SWING • Below the Pushboat visitors sit astride a loop of large diameter rope or buoy swing and swing back and forth.

• Below the Pushboat are two adaptable swings as a compliment to the Big Rope Swings • ADA Accessible

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The River - Experiential Play Components WAVE MOUNDS & SLIDE • Wide low rolling “waves” offer a chance for children to climb and roll down a series of three “waves” covered with artificial turf • A small slide located on the end of a 24” high “wave” provides an ADA accessible slide activity • ADA Accessible

WAVE MOUNDS & SLIDE

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The Big Dig - Experiential Play Components BALL CONVEYORS • Two crankable conveyors and one crankable auger lift heavy plastic balls within a machine that sends them moving overhead, clattering down through pipes, accumulating in a hopper, etc.

• The balls are always contained.

• ADA Accessible

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The Big Dig - Experiential Play Components CONVEYOR CLIMB & SLIDE • An authentic material conveyor is modified for visitor to power the conveyor belt with hand crank wheel to move others to the top of the conveyor. Visitor can also crawl up the conveyor belt to the top • From the top of the conveyor belt, visitors can slide down a stainless steel corkscrew slide

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The Big Dig - Experiential Play Components TIRE TRAIL • A mix of truck and tractor tires are mounted half-buried to create an unusual trail that requires balance and planning to walk from one end to the other

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The Big Dig - Experiential Play Components EXCAVATOR • An authentic excavator gives visitor a chance for dramatic play as a heavy equipment operator.

• The cab is accessible by an ADA compliant stair with transfer platform

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The Big Dig - Experiential Play Components BACKHOE • A Bobcat-style backhoe attachment with controls is mounted at ground level as an ADA accessible complimentary activity to the excavator • ADA Accessible

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The Big Dig - Experiential Play Components CULVERT CRAWL & SLIDE • Three authentic concrete culverts offer a fun crawl through experience • A three foot tall ADA accessible slide over the top of a concrete culvert offers a complimentary experience to the Dump Truck Slides • ADA Accessible

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The Overlook - Experiential Play Components SEATING

PROJECTION WALL & SEAT

ADA RAMP

TOWER CLIMB

STEAMER NET ADVENTURE

UPPER LEVEL SEATING

OVERLOOK CHALLENGE CANOPY DECK • An overlook deck offers ADA access up the main access ramp with muliple ways to get down via fireman pole, big slide or accompanying steps, or through the Steamer Net climb.

• Different pathways through the structure are designed to challenge different ages

NET CLIMB

• ADA Accessible

ACCESS STAIRS

UPPER LEVEL SEATING

SHIPPING CONTAINER TUNNEL & EYE SPY

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The Overlook - Experiential Play Components TOWER CLIMB • Shipping container tower accessible from the Overlook Ramp • Three story Vertical Chimney Net Climb • Two suspended rebar tunnel crawl challenges • Mesh enclosed exterior staircase for easy access to top overlook • Lean-out viewing cage on top level • Dramatic views of the river from each level

LOWER HALF OF STRUCTURE TO BE VENTED FOR FLOW-THRU AND VISIBILITY THROUGH STRUCTURE TO BE INCREASED

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The Overlook - Experiential Play Components STEAMER NET ADVENTURE • A climbing structure modelled after a shipwrecked sidewheel steamer offers many opportunities for climbing, exploring and looking out over the Playscape • Different pathways through the structure are designed to challenge different ages • ADA Accessible

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The Overlook - Experiential Play Components SHIPPING CONTAINER TUNNEL AND EYE SPY BINOCULARS • Standard and ADA accessible binoculars • Offer users different views of the PlayWorks, the park, and the river

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The Overlook - Experiential Play Components CANOPY NET PLAY • A suspended canopy net offers many opportunities for climbing, exploring and looking out over the Playscape • ADA Accessible

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