The architecture of the ten-metre diving platform at Civic Pool in Canberra (c 1955) can also be seen in the Sprungturm at the Freibad, Berlin Pankow (c 1960). The ten-metre platform abstracts from the coastal platforms in certain facets. Diving platforms are infrastructurally rich in scale and modalities of edging and elevation. The platform stands on land and projects over a body of water, the diving pool.

The diving platform adopts the elementary stepped access to levels. The diving platform (see Figure VI.1) limits the space for steps and ladders, so that a compromise gradient, usually built as a step-ladder or a winding staircase, needs to be constructed.

Many built structures include edges, lines or planes that differentiate spaces vertically. The diving platform is a somewhat unusual case since its edges cannot align with its support. Its levels jut out over a pool of water. Such arrangements, for all their apparent simplicity as a way of elevating a surface above water, bring some complexities. The levels of the platform set at three, five and ten metres cannot be stacked vertically. In that case, divers on high levels would risk hitting lower levels. So the levels of the platform need to be staggered so that the highest level projects further over the water than the lower. Such a staggered overhang requires more complicated support than the vertically aligned levels of a high-rise building with its box-like stacking. Jenga players know that the vertical stack is quite stable until holes start appearing lower down the stack. Overhangs may involve different techniques of cantilevering or balancing the projecting higher levels with the greater mass of a base or foundation.