Cubes play module with tubular slide and rope nets

This play module stacks three steel cubes at 45 degrees to each other, clad in HPL panels and acrylic glass, and links them with tensioned polyamide rope nets and a tubular slide. The offset stacking is what creates the play: each cube presents a different face, a different opening and a different route to the level above.

The cubes are black steel protected against corrosion by hot dip galvanising. They are open on every side except the lowest cube, which keeps two blank walls for the educational play panels fitted on the outside. The entry to the lowest cube is a spatial rope net with a rubber mat, which also serves as the route to the level above. A second spatial net runs between the cubes.

Two walls of the middle cube are acrylic glass so that children can watch the surrounding play area from inside, and its walls also carry a tubular polyethylene slide and a perforated stainless steel tunnel. The upper cube has a spatial rope net and a rope spider web at floor level, acrylic glass on the walls and the ceiling, and windows of several diameters. The rope elements are braided and bonded polyamide throughout, and the whole assembly sits on reinforced concrete foundations.

Technical specification

Choosing this module for a public play area

Enclosed cubes behave differently from open towers. Children stay inside them for longer, which suits schools, holiday villages and residential developments where the play area also has to work as a meeting place. The acrylic glazing keeps supervision possible from outside, and the educational panels at the base give an activity to children who are not climbing.

Permanently installed play equipment is designed and inspected under EN 1176, with the impact attenuating surfacing under EN 1177. The tubular slide exit and the upper cube each generate a free height of fall, and the surfacing has to be tested to the highest of them. Overall dimensions, the safety area and the foundation setting out are issued on the implantation drawing for your site.

Frequently asked questions

What are the overall dimensions?

They are confirmed in the implantation study, since the module is set out to suit the plot and the required impact areas. Send a site plan with the quotation request and the design office returns a dimensioned drawing.

Is the acrylic glazing durable outdoors?

The panels are specified for outdoor play equipment and are bolted components, so a damaged panel is replaced individually without dismantling the steel cube.

Can the module be supervised from outside?

Yes. The cubes are open on most faces and the middle and upper cubes are glazed in acrylic, so children remain visible from the perimeter of the play area.