Skate park design

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SKATE PARK DESIGN

S kateboarding continues to be a popular sport among young generation across the world. This de-

mand is causing in many cities to build skateboard parks to keep skateboarders off the streets and move them to a designed space.

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INDEX S. No.

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Contant

Designing a skate park

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Elements in Designing

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Concrete Skate Park Properties in Concrete

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Concrete Construction

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Wooden Skate Park Properties in Wood

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Wood Construction

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Elements in Skate Park

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Shading Structures In Skate Park

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Proposal for the Mini Skate Park

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Designing a Skate Park A skatepark is an athletic facility.

Designed and constructed specifically for skateboarders. It offers a place to congregate, relax and perform skills in a safe environment.

It is important not to directly combine beginner and advanced areas as this design approach tends to be unsafe and leads to more collisions. It is best to determine the variety of events & features required for each skill level and then design buffer zones between each riding areas.

A beginner area is a portion of the skatepark where individuals with limited or no experienced can practice in a controlled environment. It is essential for beginners to be out of the skating area of advanced skaters for their own safety.

All parks need to have street elements that combine to form a street course. A street course tends to mimic obstacles and events that can be found in real life. It includes elements such as ledges, stairs and rails. It is this type of terrain that most non-skaters are familiar with.

Designing the skatepark we also have a great opportunity to empower youth with the strength that comes from the knowledge that they can get what they want by setting goals and working toward them.

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Elements in Designing

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Flat Bottom Skatepark design must have a minimum of ten feet of flatbottom between obstacles and opposing transition. Skateboarders generate speed by pumping up and down transitions and can carry speed for good distances across flat, smooth concrete. Maximum flatbottom allows more skateboarders to skate simultaneously and avoid collisions.

Sitting Blocks, Steps and Walls Everyday street elements should be included in modern skatepark design. Sitting blocks and steps function best in a park situation when used actually in combination with other elements. Another idea is to create a street area away from any skatepark, or incorporate sitting blocks or steps into the surrounding boundary landscaping of the park on which skaters can either sit or skate.

Lips, Edges and Coping The edges of any wall or skateable pool must be hard and grindable. Skaters are looking for something to grind or slide on when they get to the top of a wall. A slightly projecting edge allows a skater to know exactly where they’re by feel. A round metal coping edge (minimum two inches in diameter like steel pipe) that sticks out slightly, grinds well and protects the cement from wear.

Transition Transition is also a very important part in designing a skate park. Generally small ramps called funboxs create in the middle of the skate park to make a continuity of the speed and to create a buffer area between the two bigger ramps.

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CONCRETE SKATE PARK

1. Custom Designs are possible.

2. Useable in the rainy seasons.

3. Cost Effective in most areas.

4. Long-term Stability.

5. Less maintenance.

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Properties in Concrete Aside from regular maintenance such as mowing, arbor care, trash and debris cleanup, well-built concrete parks have proven to be nearly maintenance free. According to Tom Miller in Skaters for Portland Skateparks, “If you want the cheapest skatepark in the sense that you’ll get the longest use out of the design, you have to build with concrete.”

According to experienced skateboarders, the durable, smooth surface and permanent structure of a concrete park is inherently safer than a deteriorating modular unit. A serious park commands a skater’s serious attention and as a result can be a safer park.

Concrete design has a define shelf life because the park is locked into a permanent configuration bound to skateboarders eventually. But modular units can be endlessly rearranged to produce a variety of skating experiences. Many skateboarders insist that modular park just doesn’t compare to the experience of skating a good concrete park. According to some skateboarders, moving modular units around to improve a park’s design defeats any potential skill progression and frustrates younger skaters because it removes an important landmark.

Concrete construction 1. Dig a hole in the targeted ground area to match the depth and cavity of the planned Skate Park.

2. Lay down reinforcement bar in the middle of the cavity in a cross pattern.

3. Bend the reinforcement bar into the necessary curve using a bending tool as you approach the bottom curve of the skate park cavity.

4. Run a 1-inch-diameter PVC pipe underneath the reinforcement bar to the center of the skate park.

5. Attach a junction to the pipe that will be the drain entrance to the plumbing in the bottom of the skate park that will drain water out, when the skate park is finished.

6. Mix cement and water into a cement mixer, creating enough cement to surface the inside of the skate park.

7. Smooth the cement with trowels and cement rakes.

8. Construct the horizontal frame all the way around the outside of the skate park area so that it forms the walking deck of the skate park.

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WOODEN SKATE PARK

1. Possible to create light weight ramps.

2. Compatible in any wether conditions.

3. Maintenance is needed in Long term.

4. Easy to rearrange the ramps.

5. Good for folding ramps.

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Properties in Wood Wooden skate parks can be easily constructed indoors and they can provide skaters with a welcome sanctuary when harsh weather conditions pervent them from skateboarding in the outdoors.

Wooden skate park structures have a hollow frames that severs as a natural amplifier for the sound of the skateboad riding across the surface of the structure. As a result, wooden skateparks significantly louder than the concrete skateparks.

Although wooden stkateparks are often flexible by design, they also require routine maintenance and upkeep costs in order to ensure a safe skateboarding enviroment.

Wood-based materials are valnerable to defects becouse of the elements. Even when build correctly, a wooden surface will eventually get worse and wear out.

Refurnishing a wooden structure could become quite expensive over the lifetime of a skatepark.

Skateboarding surfacing materials such as Skatelite and Ramp Armor avaible in the market and these materials are extremely durable so they can increse the life span of the wooden skatepark.

Skateparks build using hard wood and plywoods and advance carpentry tecniques first gained popularity during the 1980s.

Wood construction 1. Find the materials we need - Wooden planks, Plywood, Skatelite, Screws, Favicol, Nails, Design drawings and Drainage pipe(if you build it outdoor).

2. Cut the wood planks in the size of 2X2 inches.

3. Make a ramp shape frame structure using the curve angles and fix them with the screws and favicol.

4. Cut the plywood in the shapes using the trasing paper to bend them on the curves of the frame and fix it with the nails.

5. Using the skatelite material on the surface of the plywood to protect it from the grinding by the skateboard.

6. At the flat bottom area place the drainage pipe fixing using water proofing material to protect the inside wood.

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Elements in Skate Park -1 Half Pipes

Deck With Railing

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Elements in Skate Park -2 Funboxes

Spines for Sliding

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Elements in Skate Park -3 Pyramid Boxes

Grind Rails

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Shading Structure In Skate Park -1 Canopy Structures A canopy is an overhead roof or else a structure over which a fabric or metal covering is attached, able to provide shade or shelter from weather conditions such as sun, hail, snow and rain.

Tensile Structures A tensile structure is a construction of elements carrying only tension, no compression or bending. Tensile structures are the most common type of thin-shell structures.

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Shading Structure In Skate Park -2 Pergola Structures A pergola is a shaded walkway, passageway, or sitting area of vertical posts or pillars that usually supported by cross-beams. As a type of gazebo, it serve as a protection for an open terrace or a link between two pavilions.

Coffer Slab Structures Coffer slab is a series of sunken panels in the shape of a square, rectangle, or octagon in a ceiling, vault. A series of these sunken panels were used as decoration for a ceiling or a vault.

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Proposal for a Mini Skate Park Up

Up

19'

3'

3'-6"

Lvl.+6"

3'-6"

A' 8'

A

3'

Lvl.+2'

Lvl.+3'

Lvl.+3'

2'

5'

5'

5'

B'

2'

2'-6" 3'

Grind Rail 1'

Start Ramp

6"

2'-6"

Top View

2'

B

5'

Lvl.+6"

Section-AA' Deck Half Pipe

Section-BB'

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