Water parks were conceived from the outset as extensive leisure and tourism facilities and, as such, have always been deployed on large areas of land. However, one of the parameters that determines their spectacular nature and the degree of excitement in the experience they offer visitors, beyond representing a commercial and marketing argument, is the height of their slides.
For example, the “Kilimanjaro” slide at the Aldeia das Águas Park Resort water park in Barra do Piraí, Brazil, with an exit height of 49.9 metres, is the highest slide in the world (as stated on its website in large capital letters between exclamation marks!). The slide uses the top of a hill as an extension of the access tower itself and literally descends through a hollow in the hillside to the reception pool.
With Amusement Logic’s exclusive Copernican twist on a new water park concept, height becomes one of its key features. It would not only break the record of Aldeia das Águas Park Resort, it would pulverise it. This is the Aquatic Tower, or the world’s first intensive water park.
The Aquatic Tower is a high-rise design water park, which unfolds on different floors along an architectural tower that rises up to 100 m in height. In other words, the Aquatic Tower is a water park designed as a skyscraper, or a skyscraper designed as a water park.
In the Aquatic Tower, some of the slides go as far as reception pools at ground level and others leave the building, twist and turn and end up in the building itself, a few floors below. With a lift access system, users decide their route, whether to enjoy the wide variety of slides, to eat or have a drink in the elevated restaurant, or to swim in the suspended pool.
New technologies in architecture, as well as new materials, make the design and construction of the Aquatic Tower feasible. On a much smaller surface area than is required by conventional water parks, the Aquatic Tower offers visitors and users a greater assortment of attractions, intensively superimposed on the 100 m high building. Moreover, it will become an unprecedented global landmark in the leisure and tourism market and therefore attract international audiences from all over the world.
