downhill skatepark. year 12 major work
hey guys for my year 12 dt major work im designing a downhill skatepark that could be built on existing land. i need your opinion of what needs to be included in the design. would you like a indoor area if a park was built? or would just a nice road and bbq facilities be fine?
i also need to show there is a need for this so the more people that reply the better :)
thanks Nick.
i also need to show there is a need for this so the more people that reply the better :)
thanks Nick.
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Premium MemberPermalink Reply by Skittles on -
What are your limits to resources and money like?
for a low cost one, an outside downhill would be fine with some BBQs, sort of similar feel to a family park, I would advise some undercover eating area, just for a bit of shade and some chairs...
If you want no expense spared, then, you could have an indoor area at the top, for people getting ready with change rooms for leathers and such, and some nice aircon.
but for both, it would probably be good to have a buffer zone free of trees so no one crashes into any, or hits them fast.
hope that helps!
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Permalink Reply by Hoppa on
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long stretch downhill with cable cars to bring all of us back up where we started. =D
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Premium MemberPermalink Reply by Skittles on -
or a tunnel, with a spiral staircase directly under the start area! :p
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Permalink Reply by Hoppa on
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it will be funny if we had traffic lights, though no one will actually bother about it.
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Permalink Reply by Timothy Shu on -
This sounds a little beyond the scope of a Highschool class, i mean building a road alone is a major civil engineering task.
Lets say you're only building an outdoor facitily not including buildings or related recreational areas, just the road itself. You'll need to do a site survey to determine the stability of the soil including soil core samples, and then in areas that are bad you'll need to perform some sort of ground stabilisation though the use of soil anchors and rollers.
Then you'd need to design a drainage foundation underneath the road, which brings the problem of a downhill drainage underneath roads which is that the water tends to race beneath the drainage path below the roadway and explode out the bottom.
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Permalink Reply by Hoppa on
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lemme guess, you're a civil engineer by major? =)
Timothy Shu said:This sounds a little beyond the scope of a Highschool class, i mean building a road alone is a major civil engineering task.
Lets say you're only building an outdoor facitily not including buildings or related recreational areas, just the road itself. You'll need to do a site survey to determine the stability of the soil including soil core samples, and then in areas that are bad you'll need to perform some sort of ground stabilisation though the use of soil anchors and rollers.
Then you'd need to design a drainage foundation underneath the road, which brings the problem of a downhill drainage underneath roads which is that the water tends to race beneath the drainage path below the roadway and explode out the bottom.
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Permalink Reply by Timothy Shu on
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Guilty as charged
Hoppa said:lemme guess, you're a civil engineer by major? =)
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Permalink Reply by Hoppa on
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go help him get an A+ for this project. ahahhaha
now all we need is an architect. a land surveyor, and a quantity surveyor.
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Permalink Reply by Timothy Shu on
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lol, after i finish all MY homework.
It would be pretty cool to hand in complete design documents for highschool homework.
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Permalink Reply by Nick Stuart on -
Haha I'm not actually building it just designing a park that could be proposed to council to build
Timothy Shu said:This sounds a little beyond the scope of a Highschool class, i mean building a road alone is a major civil engineering task. Lets say you're only building an outdoor facitily not including buildings or related recreational areas, just the road itself. You'll need to do a site survey to determine the stability of the soil including soil core samples, and then in areas that are bad you'll need to perform some sort of ground stabilisation though the use of soil anchors and rollers.
Then you'd need to design a drainage foundation underneath the road, which brings the problem of a downhill drainage underneath roads which is that the water tends to race beneath the drainage path below the roadway and explode out the bottom.
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Premium MemberPermalink Reply by sean meaney on -
i would want to see steep tight switch back turns, lots of them, a banked turn or two would be cool as well. something to make it easier to get to the top of the hill would be dope too, this could be as simple as a bridge running over the track (really cool idea anyway so people can film) or as complicated as a chairlift running up it. BBQ's would be legit too and maybe somewhere for people to camp that has basic facilities.
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Permalink Reply by Steven Rose on
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i think the easiest land to swipe for this sort of thing would be an open cut mine that hasn't been used in a long time, or an old quarry, indoor facilities like change rooms, etc and bbq area at the bottom where its nice and flat, change room and carpark at the very top. it could just be a long spiral from the top to the bottom, maybe even throw in a hairpin or two, and just have stairs going back to the top, just between each part of the track so you'd have about 10 stairs between each part of the track.. i have it all drawn out in my head, might be a bit weird for you guys to think it up!
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