The document describes the development of a new generation of modular playground equipment called GALAXY by KOMPAN. The system was designed to be flexible and adaptable to different sites while providing a wider variety of challenging play experiences for older children. Key aspects included stabiles (fixed structures) that serve as anchors for connecting play components at varying heights and angles, as well as innovative equipment like a spinning orb and tilting ring. Prototypes were tested with children before the popular and commercially successful GALAXY system was released.

1. GALAXYGALAXY
SystemsSystems

2. • While keeping these words of their user
base in mind,KOMPAN had goals of its
own.
• Unlike the first edition of the system-a
limited set of fixed solitary products sold
as supplements to play areas-this new
generation of GALAXY would be modular,
• modular 模件化

3. • to allow buyers to adjust the equipment to
accommodate site variation or to expand
user capacity at will.
• equipment( 設備 )
• capacity( 容量 )

4. •
• This new generation would also improve
on the previous edition by providing a
wider and less repetitious array of play
experiences for users.
• providing 以 ... 為條件 ; 假如
• repetitious 反覆的 array 配置

5. • The system would be accessible from the
ground, allowing children in wheelchairs to
approach and use the systems without
assistance. And,
• wheelchairs( 輪椅 )

6. • of course, the design would look good
both in urban and natural settings and
would be visually appealing both to
children and to the adults who would be
buying the equipment.
• visually( 視覺上 )

7. •
• In rethinking the system, the team was not
starting from scratch; they hoped to retain
and build on principles that were integral
to the success of the first version.

8. •
• Both the aesthetics and concept of the
original system were inspired by the work
of the sculptor Alexander Calder.
• aesthetics 美學
• inspired 靈感 )

9. • His colorful and playful style was a natural
for a playground
•
• There was a reason for his famous
statement,“ My fan mail is enormous.

10. •
Everyone is under six." The mobiles and
stabiles (mobiles that are planted in the
ground rather than hanging)
that he invented inspired an architecture
( 體系結構 ) distinct from the post-and-
platform structure( 後與平台結構 ) so
prevalent in playground equipment design.
• 。

11. • KOMPAN had an
• advantage they weren't used to-many of
their previous playground
• lines targeted two- to eight-year-olds, but
targeting older
• children meant better communication.

12. • This age group is different
• in that you can talk to them and get
feedback
• To suit these users, the equipment had to
be open, both to
• enable a variety of creative approaches
and to allow the children
• to relate to and learn from each other
• feedback 反饋

13. • In addition, it must continue
• to provide a challenge to the children or
they will quickly
• become bored
• Armed with this knowledge, the designers
began by building on
• the stabile and mobile architecture they
had used so successfully
• for the first generation of GALAXY
• mobile architecture 移動架構上設計
• stabile 安定

14. • the team at KOMPAN felt it didn't fit the dynamic
nature of the GALAXY line of equipment
• They came up with the idea of calling the
systems
• constellations and began brainstorming ways
they could make
• the system more flexible and adaptable; three
sizes of constellations
• would be offered.
• Flexible 靈活
• Adaptable 適應

15. • They started working on developing a
geometry for the system.
• The stabiles were planned to act as the
centerpiece of each constellation
• of play equipment
• Stabiles are built on a frame of three
• galvanized poles, each positioned at a
corner of an equilateral
• triangle
• developing 開發
• positioned 定位

16. • with each pole leaning toward the center
of the triangle and bound together by a top
frameup to five connector balls,which are
used to join the poles, can be mounted on
each pole creating numerous attachment
points at a variety of heights and angles
for play components‧
• play components 遊戲組件

17. • Those intersecting two legs of a stabile
and those entering the center point and
one leg of a stabile. With this system in
place, the team was able to begin
developing link activities that would span
the stabiles
• Stabiles 固定器
• System 系統

18. As development progressed, the
team realized they needed to create
a system of smaller stabiles
development 發展
create 創造 ; 創作

19. • Within each of these categories, the
designers brainstormed ways they
could create a dynamic play
experience.
• Create 創建

20. • They came up with a number of
innovative equipment ideas that
would challenge and grow along with
children.
• Innovative 創新的

21. • One piece of equipment that reflects
this strategy is the Supernova, an
orbiting ring, mounted on six secure
legs, that turns around a 10-degree
tilted axis;
• Equipment 設備
• Strategy 策略
• orbiting ring 軌道環

22. • the slope of the ring ensures that it
spins faster for larger children and
slower for younger children, so the
piece retains its interest for the same
child over a longer period.

23. • The patent-pending Nebula orb is
mounted to angled stainless-steel
augers and can be rotated in a
helical movement up and down the
augers;
• patent-pending 專利申請
• orb 球狀物
• Mounted 安裝
• stainless-steel 不鏽鋼
• Angled 直角的
• Helical 螺旋

24. • the child has the choice of creating a
personal climbing track, taking a
softly spinning tour from top to bottom
or simply engaging in the tactile
experience of spinning the orb.
• track 攀登軌道

25. • The team first built smaller models out of
cardboard, for internal presentations, and
then set about building full-scale, working
prototypes that could be tested with
children.
• Cardboard 紙板
• full-scale 全面
• Prototypes 原型

26. • They tested the equipment on a site they
had rented, then took the equipment to
schools in both rural and urban settings.

27. • The system was rapidly accepted, both in
North America
• and in Europe, and with the release of
GALAXY Extreme, KOMPAN
• continues to extend the possibilities of the
system.
• release 發行