Volo Aire™ w/2 Tunnel Slides

Video features Landscape Structures new Smart Play Volo Aire.

[video: scene fades into flying through clouds, text appears on screen reading "Smart Play, Volo Aire". Volo Aire text slides from the right the left of the screen as more text appears that reads "takes everyone to new heights!". Scene zooms to a group of children running to a large tower structure with big, long tube slides. Children fill the structure and begin to play. Camera pans from the bottom to the top of the tower. White text appears in the center of the screen reading "Accessible three-story tower". Camera switches to a slightly elevated view is it slowly rotates around the structure. Camera focuses on children playing on the first level made of nets and ropes and different climbing activities. Camera focuses on the outside enclosed top of the tower structure. A boy rides down a blue slide. Camera pulls back to a full view of the tower structure. Children walk up an inclined belted walkway while another boy crawls up. A boy lays on a large circular swing seat. A boy steps off the structure to ride down a firepole. A boy uses a side rope to help pull himself up a steep inclined belt climber. White text appears in the center of the screen that reads "Packed with play events". Top-down view of a boy and girl as they walk across a belt bridge. Ground view up through a netting inside the tower. White text on screen reads "Revolutionary LSI Flexx. A girl helps a boy climb up through a port hole in the netting. Scene fades to a mother as she helps lift her son to transition him from his wheelchair to the playground decking. White text on screen reads "Designed with inclusive input". The boy crawls up the netting on the structure with ease. Scene switches to the boy climbing up the netting into the second level of the tower. A mother stands below her daughter spotting her as she climbs up the steep belted climber. Scene fades to a boy and girl up in the tower as they speak to the camera.]

Boy: Its fun it is very high.

[video: text on screen reads "Thoughts from waaaaay up above".

Boy 2: It’s like see-through and it feels like you’re going to fall but you just keep walking.

[video: view down through the netting from the top level of the tower. Camera focuses on a girl’s feet as she stands on a slack line.]

Boy 3: It has really nice netting and foot grips.

Boy 4: Its very fun.

Girl: It’s awesome.

[video: camera pans the outside top level of the tower as children play inside.

Girl 2: I love it, I love how it’s super high because the slides go really fast.

[video: camera pans down a boys legs as he crawls up the netting, he speaks to the camera.]

Boy 3: There’s a ton of ways you can go there’s not really only one way.

Girl 3: It’s really fun and I like the high, it’s really high.

[video: view down through the netting at the top of the tower as children climb around. Child off camera reads a panel with different birds on it. "Can you find these birds on the playground?". A boy points to one of the birds on the panel. "I found the Blue Jay". Scene switches to a view of a perforated belt climber as a child stands on one of it.]

Boy 5: The best playground ever!

[video: a boy kneels to speak into a talk tube.]

Boy 6: Hello!

[video: screen fills to a full teal color as light blue text fill the center of the screen that reads "Personalization and themes available". Screen switches to a realistic render of a Volo Aire tower in a beach setting with the perforated panels of the tower designed with seagulls and the name Newport. Screen zooms to a different render of the Volo Aire with the perforated panel designed with clouds. Screen zooms to a Volo Aire set near a wooded area with green and brown accents and the perforated panel designed with leaves. Screen zooms to a Volo Aire set in a mountain setting with the perforated panel designed with mountain ranges on it. Screen zooms to a Volo Aire set in a beach setting with waves designed on the perforated panels and aqua colored accents. Scene switches to a view down into an enclosed climber as a boy begins to climb up. A boy sits at the top of a slide waiting his turn to ride down. A boy climbs up geometric shaped piping inside the tower. A girl sitting at the top of one of the large tube slides waves to the camera before riding down. White text on screen reads "The industry’s tallest accessible slide". Two boys sit on a net landing in the top level of the tower. A boy holds himself up on ropes up in the tower. Scene switches to a full bird’s eye view of the play area. Scene switches to an elevated view panning towards the second level of the tower. Children can be seen inside the tower playing at different activities. White text on screen reads "Excellent visibility". Camera follows a child’s feet as they step across spring steps. Children climb on vertical ropes with foot and hand knobs. A girl crawls across a slack line. Scene switches to a rotating outer view of the top of the towers slatted bars. White text on screen reads "360 degree views". A boy and girl ride down a dual laned slide together. A boy holds the camera facing up towards himself as he climbs up in the tower. The boy rides down the long tube slide. Scene zooms to a ground view up to the Volo Air as white text fills the center of the screen reading " We are elevating fun!". Clouds fill the screen as the Volo Aire disappears. Screen goes to a dark teal with light blue text in the center reading "Exclusively from" and the Landscape Structures logo appears middle of screen. Video ends.]

Video features Landscape Structures new Smart Play Volo Aire as Jill Moore and John Buettner show off the inclusive features.

[video: screen fades in with Jill more and John seated in their wheelchairs in front of a large tower play structure set up in a testing facility. Jill waves introducing herself.

Jill Moore: What’s up guys, my name is Jill Moore. We are at the Landscape Structures Playground testing facility today and behind me is the Volo Aire. I am joined by the man the myth the legend president of the LSI Play Team.

[video: white text appears above Jill with an arrowing pointing to her that reads “Jill Moore, Inclusive Play Specialist”.

John Buettner: My name is John Buettner, as Jill said I am the head of the LSI Junior Play Team.

[video: white text appears above John with an arrowing pointing to him that reads “John Buettner, President, Landscape Structures Jr. Play Team.

Jill: And today we’re going to check this thing out and show why this piece behind us is such an awesome opportunity for inclusion for excitement and for some really cool play.

[video: fades into Jill sitting on a large, slopped net on the Volo Aire structure.]

Jill: We’re on the LSI Flexx Net and what’s really cool abou this is just how many doors it opens up for people to take this tower on in so many different ways.

[video: Jill transfers from her wheelchair onto the playground decking and crawling onto the Flexx Net. John also shows how he transfers himself onto the Volo Aire from his wheelchair.]

Jill: Jay Dog what’s your favorite way to get through this thing?

John: This opens up so many opportunities for me to like move around because you can like basically go anywhere.

[video: John and Jill climb and lounge as they talk about the Flexx Netting.]

Jill: Yeah, it makes it pretty efficient right because you can choose like which way you want to go how you want to get there where you want to spend your energy.

John: You can get all the way from down there to up here in just a few simple movements. So, it’s really easy to traverse through the net.

[video: John crawls up to the seconding level of the Volo Aire transferring from the Flexx Net onto the playground decking. Camera switches to a full outer view panning around the Volo Aire showing its many climbing activities, slides, and more.]

Jill: One of the coolest things about the Volo Air is just the amount of variety. When we talk about kids coming to play on this thing we want to create I mean as many ways as possible for people to find their just right fit.]

[video: Jill sits on the playground decking as she talks more about the accessibility of the Volo Aire.]

Jill: So John he loves the net I prefer going up this thing.

[video: Jill climbs up saddle shaped steppers leading up to the second level of the Volo Aire.]

Jill: And even zooming out further if we think about kiddos with autism diagnosis or motor coordination disabilities who are working on building those motor patterns. They’re going to seek out that just right fit.

[video: camera pans away from the top two levels of the Volo Aire showing a perforated siding with the design of clouds, paper airplane, and text reading Volo Aire.]

Jill: When we designed this we talked a lot about support, so where do people needs support where do we need hand holds where do we need a second where I can prop my body so I can get some rest stabilize myself and continue up at my pace exactly how I want to take this thing on.

[video: Jill crawls up a belted climber with foot and handhold.]

Jill: we noticed that a lot of caregivers they needed that quick access to meet their child as well.

[video: camera focuses on horizontal ropes for stability.

Jill: So, a lot of this support a lot of these handholds were considered for also just making sure people do feel comfortable and supported as they work their way through this thing.

[video: camera jumps to different views of bar handholds and different ropes. Jill sits at the second level of the tower.]

Jill: You will notice by now I am already at two different slides. That’s two different exit points so that if I’m chilling on the first level and I’m good with that then I still have plenty of things to do, but there’s also more above.

[video: view down a large green slide. Camera switches to a view of a smaller dual laned slide. Camera switches to an outside view of the Volo Aire panning up showing its full height. Jill climbs up further where there are more Flexx Net and other climbing activities inside the Volo Aire tower.]

Jill: we get into this level in the second tier, and we found hat a lot of kids we were working with, kids with low muscle tone and so they actually really liked laying on the net I mean it’s a super comfortable experience and you’re feeling everybody moving around you and picking up on that wiggle.

[video: Jill lays on the Flexx Net giving a thumbs up and a smile.]

Jill: But they needed an easy way to get out, which is why we have so many different entry and exit points.

[video: from a ground view up the camera focuses on the enclosed top tiers of the tower. Scene switches to John siting at the top of a slide on the second tier of the tower. He stabilizes himself with a near by rope handhold and a bar handhold.]

John: What I really like about the Volo Aire is that with so many paths and so many places to go.

[video: John climbs and crawls all over the different textures, belts, climbers, and netting around the Volo Aire.]

John: You need to occasionally stabilize yourself so that’s why I really like how many handles you can grab onto when you need to stabilize yourself and I really like grabbing into a few of them when I’m trying to get up here.

[video: John shows how he finds those good stabilizing ropes and handholds all around the tower. Camera focuses on John’s hand gripping a rope. John points up a Flexx Net ramp.

John: This area where you have to climb up there’s a bunch of handrails there that you can grab onto.

[video: camera pans the outside of the Volo Aire from the ground to the top tier.]

Jill: Towers are the name of the game, right? Everyone wants to create height they want to create perceived risk they want to create thrill and so we’re seeing more and more of these towers come up and I think it’s a great thing to introduce.

[video: camera pans around the Volo Aire showing the many slides and additional outside climbers on the structure. Jill sits up in the third tier of the structure and showing how you can see all the way through the structure because of the Flexx Net.]

Jill: There is a super clear path all the way from the initial transfer platform all the way to the top here. That I can crawl that I can Scoot I can take this thing on really however it suits my needs.

[video: Jill shows how she can maneuver around the different internal climbing activities the way that works best for her.

[video: camera switches back to a elevated view of the Volo Aire.]

Jill: We recognize that not all users are going to transfer from their wheelchair or climb all the way to the top that being said we still did really push ourselves to create as much opportunity as possible for as much variety as possible. So for people who are transferring there’s a lot of great routes and for people who are staying in their chairs or staying at ground level there’s still plenty to do.

[video: John climbs up a belted climber. Camera focuses on Johns legs as he adjusts and gets them in the right place to help push him forward. Scene switches to an internal pan of the top tier of the tower. John climbs to the slide up in the third tier of the tower. Scene switches to a up close view of a panel asking children to search for images of certain birds placed around the tower. Camera focuses on a ball knot on a vertical rope with the Landscape Structures swiggle logo on it. Camera focuses in closely on the metal connectors that make up the Flexx Net. John pulls himself to an upright sitting position by grabbing the side of the open slide he just rode down. His mom pushes his wheelchair over to him. John’s mom helps John transfer from the bottom of the slide back into his wheelchair. Jill climbs over to a slide entrance gives the camera a thumbs up and rides down to the bottom.]

Jill: The fact that I can get all the way from the bottom to this top here and go down the big slide, I mean that’s really really unique sensation.

[video: scene switches to a view of Jills wheelchair waiting next to the slide she rides down. Jill pulls her wheelchair over to herself and transfers back into her chair.]

Jill: When I was a kid getting to the big slide, I mean we never got those opportunities. We have worked with our junior play team through this entire process. They have been involved since we first got a prototype and so we got to see where all the supports were needed, where kids sout out thrill where they wanted to climb to the top and get that “I did it”. Because when you look down, I mean you’re seeing all the way below so it is a little bit intimidating but it’s really cool that I can experience this thrill just like everybody else with the way we’ve laid this out and have it designed.

[video: scene switches to an outdoor Volo Aire play structure where Johns mom helps him to transfer from him chair onto the playground decking. John climbs up the Flexx Net. Top-down view from the second tier of the tower where a girl climbs up a steep belt climber while her mom helps to push her up to the playground decking. John climbs up one of the Flexx Net climbing paths up in the Volo Aire. Camera focuses on John as he stabilizes himself with surrounding ropes. He smiles as he looks around at the highest point in the tower. Scene switches to John climbing on a belted bridge at the lowest level of the tower. Camera pears down through the Flexx Netting as a mother lays her son on the lower level Flexx Netting like a hammock. Scene switches to John as he perches himself up in the highest point of the tower. Camera follows John as he climbs up to one of the tubed slide entrances. Camera switches back to Jill as she continues to speak.]

Jill: Another really big win with this tower I think is just so many of the different sensory elements. I mean we have these panels these beautiful panels that are letting light through so there’s a lot of visibility but at the same time when you’re in here I mean it’s shade it’s comfortable you’re enclosed. I mean I feel like I’m in a really tall tree fort.

[video: Jill scooches herself on the Flexx Netting up higher into the tower. Jill points to these large slated wood panels. Camera pans to the wood panels showing the airflow and light that can pass through even in the highest part of the tower. Scene switches to an outside view of the perforated panel with the Volo Aire name and paper airplane design on the outside of the tower. Camera switches to a slow rotating view of the top level of the tower with the slatted panels.]

Jill: We see John over there he’s in his hammock he’s chilling.

[video: John lays on a belted foot path but uses it like a hammock.]

Jill: Again we worked hard we put in a lot of effort to get to the top of this thing so if we can take a breather, max and relax because he’s the king of that then we’ve made a successful run.

[video: camera view up from the ground focusing on the outside top two tiers of the Volo Aire. Camera switches to a ground view up to the tallest slide from the third tier of the tower. Scene switches to John as he continues to lay on the belted footpath. Scene fades back to Jill and John down on the ground in their wheelchairs in front of the tower.]

Jill: There you have it folds we made it to the top we climbed we went on slides.

[video: John laying on his stomach holds himself at the top of the entrance of the slide. He slowly lets go and rides down the slide on his stomach with his feet first. Scene switches back to John and Jill on the ground.]

Jill: But we had an awesome time, and I think it’s pretty cool that we can go to the top hang out and get to experience this thing. Thanks for coming with us as we show off the Volo Aire.

[video: John and Jill hold their arms up to present the Volo Aire tower behind them. John cups his hands around his mouth.]

John: Coming soon to a playground near you.

Jill: Boom.

[video: Jill holds her hand out to John and they high five.]

John: I don’t know why I did the whole movie theater voice thing.

Jill: That made it so much better though it was so official.

[video: screen jumps to a dark teal as the Landscape Structures logo appears center screen. Video ends.]