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YOUTH zone
The area designed for the youngest. While planning an aquatic play area, it is important to offer an inviting
zone for younger users by integrating components developed for their specific needs. This zone invites
toddlers to the joy and sensation of running water, without scaring them off. We put emphasis on the water’s
pattern, its shape and its texture. The Youth Zone is adapted to a toddler’s size, full of activities allowing
them to discover and grow so that we :
Favor their cognitive abilities by using easeful games to learn new sensory and tactile experiences, all while
developing their imagination using visual stimulations.
Favor their motor skills by using structures and ground jets to encourage their use of balance and
coordination.
Favor interactive play by using different components with characteristics that help them explore and learn with
the use of touch to turn and move them.
Favor relationships between parents and their children by integrating some play elements at a softer intensity.
Aquatic play areas are generally divided into zones to privilege intergenerational recreational activities.
We divide these areas into three distinct zones: the Youth Zone, the Family Zone and the Active
Zone. This stimulates and delights users of all ages.
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ACTIVE zone
The most energetic and active play area. This is the area of
challenges, of collaboration, and of competition. It is the
perfect zone for teenagers in need of more action. We
generally have the more intense components here,
such as the cannons, because we are looking to:
Privilege components integration with a more intense
activity interaction where children have to touch, turn,
and move them to play.
Privilege socialisation with games that promote
interaction between players, social skills, learning and
that help them understand values, social roles, and
teamwork.
Privilege collaboration with stimulating play
in an environment that inspires teamwork and
friendly competition.
Privilege physical development by creating
a favorable play atmosphere that will improve
muscular abilities and aerobic skills.
FAMILY zone
The main aquatic play area. This zone is suitable for all ages. It is generally the central area that
offers the widest selection of play features where we:
Promote intergenerational play. It incites all family members to have fun and cool off together
using play features suitable to everyone.
Promote the integration of interactive play at a moderate intensity that invites everyone to play
by touching, turning, and moving them.
Promote cognitive development by experimenting with different shapes and water jet intensities.
These are components where water falls in cascades and sprays from structures or from the ground.
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