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LIVING REIMAGINED:

What kids

really want

The parks and playgrounds at the heart of Iluma Private

Estate are a magnet for children and families, helping to build
important community connections. They also play a vital role

in building children’s social, emotional and cognitive skills
that aid their development and learning.

Above: Dazzle Park: Fitness node
Left: Dazzle Park: Public art amphitheatre and playground

The concept of play has always “There are plenty of benefits of a
been central to the design of the space to play that go far beyond
award-winning Iluma Private Estate aesthetics and giving kids something
masterplanned community. Situated fun to do. Playgrounds are the heart
amongst acres of green open space in of a community and an indispensable
Perth’s thriving eastern corridor, it’s gathering space with benefits that
home to Pegasus Park and recently reverberate well beyond the immediate
completed Dazzle Park, with one more community of neighbours.”
park planned for the life of the project.
A reflection of Mirvac’s commitment
The arrival of the carefully designed to ‘placemaking’, the first of Iluma’s
parks has given Iluma residents and the recreational spaces to be completed was
wider community the opportunity to let Pegasus Park in 2018 which has cemented
their children roam, explore and learn itself as the go-to play and meeting place
at their leisure within a truly unique for the community.
community while also creating a place for
neighbours to connect. Features such as the undulating running
and scooter track, a mini obstacle course
Mirvac’s Landscape Manager, Ian Russell with built-in trampolines and long jump
together with landscape architects, practice coupled with sporting facilities
Emerge, have spent the better part of a such as the ‘backyard’ cricket pitch and
decade conceptualising the parklands static fielders, half-court basketball and
with residents and the wider community tennis practice wall have proven popular
in mind. with local families.
“We take inspiration from around the The completion of Dazzle Park, has added
globe,” says Mr Russell. “Playgrounds a new dimension to the Estate, providing
have come a long way in recent years, but an open setting for residents to meet
the core element we keep coming back new neighbours, share an afternoon with
to at Iluma is that these parks need to visitors and enjoy outdoor living.
provide a place for real play and authentic
connection within a community.

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