Progress - 25 MAR 03

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Most of the actual park is finished. You are allowed to skate there now. There is still work going with the fences, safety rails, drinking fountains and the courtyard. It will be opened on the 5th April.

Skatepark Design Committee - Designs

Final Designs of the park.


These are the sort of final design of the park. There has been about a page or two of alterations to this plan since it was done. The builder has also cocked some stuff up, and the engineer has been slack by not insisting the park be built to plan.



You can't see them very well here as they are really big. Download them and then print them out.

Here are some Concept designs made by Dave Cpmpton-Moen (Landscape Architect DCC).



You can't see them very well here as they are really big. Download them and then print them out.




I've notice that a few people have been directed to the page using the search keyword "skatepark design". I'd hate to think people would rebuild the designs contained here.

A number of years ago Powell produced some designs for a fun box. We built it here, but lots of other people built it as well. Which sort've sucked, because everyone had the same thing, and some of it was wrong.

Some things with our park are pretty cool, other things could have in retrospect been designed differently, some things you wouldn't build, and some other things are just plain wrong, but you live with it, that's part of having a park. If you are thinking of designing a park go to other parks in your area and see what works and what doesn't. When you are there measure everything, because when you get back home it's "I think it's a metre long" when in reality it's not. Metres long are shorter in reality and metres high seem higher. Same with angles, you get them totally wrong too.

Wooden skateparks are slower then concrete, so what works on one surface does not work on another. Concrete parks need more flat bottom because they are quicker. Steal elements of parks, just not the whole thing. In our park the pyramid with banks on either side is probably the most popular feature, followed by the bowl. The left hand bank is not a complex multileveled arrangement as in the plans, but just one flat bank, so don't copy the plans. The bowl wasn't built quite right either, because the builder was new to it and got some of the dimensions wrong. It all worked out in the end, but I think the bowl might have worked out a bit better if the plans had been followed. But maybe not. Once it's concrete there is very little you can do with it.

Keep it simple, that way the plans will work, the builder will build it right. Show as many people as possible and get their ideas. Revise constantly.


Good Luck



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