YMCA Playnasium

The YMCA Playnasium concept has had over 20,000 families physically engage with it during its 9 installations since late 2016.  These engagements encourage parents to exercise and to spend quality time with their kids.

As well as over 20,000 families engaging with the equipment to date, the Playnasium has garnered over 11 million PR impressions for McCann and YMCA in Australia, and has gained international recognition including silver and bronze Lions at Cannes Entertainment Lions

Not only did the Playnasium need to be safe and engaging for both adults and children to use, it also had to be capable of being moved between multiple sites.  This meant that normal methods of construction and mounting for outdoor equipment were not possible and Bayly had to develop innovative assembly and flooring options to combine mobility, safety and fun.

The YMCA Playnasium utilised the unique combination of skills on offer from Bayly Group in product design and development, as well as from McCann in innovative marketing, to produce a product that seamlessly blends exercise and playground equipment.

The equipment developed makes casual exercise more enjoyable, provides new opportunities for young parents to engage with their children, and offers unique play experiences for children.  In doing these things it also provides a completely unique promotional platform for YMCA in line with McCann\'s project intent.

Bayly was engaged to combine adult exercise and child play equipment for installation.  While each equipment type is reasonably common on their own, combining the needs of both age groups and developing an engaging, entertaining solution within relevant standards restrictions was a unique challenge.  Bayly's success at meeting this challenge can be seen by the use that the first three equipment pieces have had.