Walltopia Reveals Details About the Adventure Hub at Ocean Flower Island
A magnificent project that was delayed because of the Covid-19 pandemic is finally open.
Walltopia’s creation completed for Evergrande represents an Adventure Hub, designed and built by the leading Active entertainment manufacturer with a footprint of 2200 sq. m and a height of 16 m. It features Ocean-themed Ropes courses, Fun Walls, Artificial Cave, the Rollglider, Adventure Trail, Elevated Kids Playgrounds, and more.
Ocean Flower Island (Chinese: 中国海花岛) is an artificial archipelago located off the north coast of Danzhou, Hainan, China, west of the Yangpu Peninsula. The project, built by the Evergrande Group, consists of three independent islets with a total area of 381 hectares (940 acres). The investment is 160 billion RMB (US$24 billion).
The Evergrande Group is the second-largest construction company in China with over 1,300 projects in more than 280 Chinese cities. Its property management department is involved in nearly 2,800 projects in more than 310 cities across the country. The group has seven divisions covering a wide range of businesses, including electric cars, healthcare, consumer products, video and television productions, and a theme park.
Lately, Evergrande has been in the headlines of international media with its financial troubles threatening China’s economy and the stock markets. However, the Ocean Flower Island project opened successfully some days ago.
Ocean Flower Island
Ocean Flower Island features a vast array of attractions, including a 127,000 sq. m marine world with a water park, 28 museums, 58 hotels, and 40 km of coastline. Additionally, it offers themed food streets, an amphitheater, convention facilities, luxury residences, and a Central Park. Visitors can also enjoy a shopping mall, sports fields, an opera house, and folklore performance squares, making it a diverse destination for entertainment, culture, and relaxation.
About Walltopia Project – Ocean Flower Island
The Walltopia Adventure Hub is part of the Central Park. We asked the manufacturer’s team to tell us about the attractions in it.
Cveta Mihaylova, Sales & Business Development at Walltopia China:
Ocean Flower Adventure Hub is an ambitious complex attraction comprised of interconnected themed facilities. When you enter, the first thing you see are the themed sea animal elements. You find yourself in the low-level kids’ area. As you climb higher, you discover more and more activities for the different age groups.
We have a netted playground and kids’ ropes course at the children’s area consisting of 22 obstacles. A state-of-the-art GRP squid tentacle surrounds it. Right across from the Kids’ Rope Course is the “whale” playground. It has a simultaneous capacity reaching 50 people. There the youngest kids can play in a harness-free, fully protected environment.
The adult and teen zones form a spiral of activities inspired by the shape of the beautiful Muricid shells found around the coastlines of Hainan. A Walltopia Adventure trail made of “sea bubbles” surrounds these zones. Visitors can crawl between the bubbles through net tunnels. In the Hub, we also incorporated a high ropes course with 28 obstacles of various difficulty levels.
Additionally, we installed a Fun Walls zone with sea-life-themed interactive climbing walls designed especially for Ocean Flower. To top it off, there are a 48 meters long exploration cave and slides. Оn top of the structure is a 150 m Gravity Rollglider, to spike the adrenaline even in the bravest participants.
Talking to the Evergrande team members, we asked them how they decided to go for Active Entertainment attractions in Ocean Flower Island?
An Evergrande Bidding Engineer shared that the central park of Ocean Flower Island was designed as a vibrant outdoor leisure and entertainment destination. Specifically, it was meant to enhance the tourist experience with visually appealing constructions and engaging activities. This was the idea behind the Children’s amusement area and The Exploration Center for teenagers and kids. Walltopia’s products and designs were chosen for their suitability in creating these engaging and aesthetically pleasing facilities. So they contributed to the overall appeal of the island’s attractions.
Why did Evergrande choose Walltopia?
In the first place, because Walltopia is a well-known brand. The company provides an extensive range of products, and the facilities developed by them are exciting and have a powerful play factor.
Walltopia is a strong player in the industry, and its excellent product design and manufacturing capacity were the main reasons we picked them.
Second, their concept and design aligned with Ocean Flower Island’s main Central Park idea, and that was a good fit, the company speaker said.
How did the process go?
We can confidently say that everything went very well. One of the great things was that in the process Walltopia set up an office in Shanghai. That made communication very easy. We actually don’t have even a single complaint, told us a Procurement Department Project Lead.
The team at Walltopia takes its work very seriously and executes tasks with a high level of responsibility. We feel that Walltopia is a trustworthy partner.
We chose them for their reputation and design and quality track record in the industry, and they lived up to it.
To summarize, Valya Krasteva, Sales & Business Development at Walltopia China, explained:
We have been collaborating with the Evergrande team for nearly six years, working with top professionals in design, engineering, operations, and project management. The design and engineering phase took about six months to complete. However, the execution phase, which included production, shipment, and assembly, faced delays due to Covid-19, extending the usual six-month process to nearly a year.
Seeing it open today, we are very proud of our work, and we are happy that Evergrande chose Walltopia to design and build an attraction facility of this size. The trending active entertainment activities combined in a single-themed structure with a storyline, are a perfect example of what we can do.
No other company in our industry today can create such complex and monumental projects.
