Creative and Innovative Design
VDA was the first architect to introduce British Columbia to:
- Curved edge movable pool floor
- Dedicated warm water therapy pool in a community recreation centre
- The freeform warm water leisure pool concept
- Moving water in aquatic facilities
- Wave machines
- Family changing rooms
- Poolside viewing terraces
- Lazy rivers
- Interactive child’s play devices in pools
- “Conversation pit” swirlpools
- Raised accessible swirlpool decks
- Massaging bubble pits
- Indoor/outdoor waterslides
- Landing strip for waterslides
- Movable pool floors
- Double bulkhead system in 50m competition pools
International firsts include:
- First Handicap accessible indoor waterslide in North America
- First wave pool in New Zealand
- Largest aquatic facility in New Zealand
- Largest indoor wave pool in Australasia
- First YMCA wave pool, Grays Harbor, WA, USA
- First free-form Myrtha pool