MILL CREEK MINIATURE GOLF COURSE PART I I:
DESIGN IN DETAIL

	Challenge Program Presentation Discussion and Review Calendar Skills

Challenge

This three-week studio explores the design of one part of Mill Creek Mini Golf in detail. The object is to marshal all the skills of the landscape designer to shape the players' experience of story and place, to create a wonderful place that fuses function, feeling, and meaning.

Remember: the goal of this project is to design a miniature golf course like none anyone has ever seen. It should tell a story or a series of stories, inform, be fun, and engage the senses–-sight, sound, smell, touch. It should transform the way people perceive the Mill Creek neighborhood. It should preserve, reveal, and celebrate water.

Program Requirements

Program elements are those described in Mill Creek Mini Golf Part I. You may add further program elements, as appropriate to your proposal, but must provide the following:

Perimeter fence with gate(s)

Entrance(s) for pedestrians and cars

Parking for 30 cars

Small structure with shop, concessions, rest rooms (including service access for deliveries and garbage removal)

Gathering space for special events

18 holes of miniature golf linked by paths

Accommodation of spectators/visitors

Identification of areas for future expansion, including 18 additional holes of miniature golf and parking for an additional 30 cars

Detention facilities for all stormwater generated on site. The golf course must detain all stormwater runoff generated onsite: a portion may have water all the time; another portion may flood temporarily after rainstorms. Planting design and detailing of pavement, walls, and water edges should reveal and respond to water flow and changing water levels.

Presentation Requirements

While there will be pin-up discussions, the ultimate presentation is on your web gallery. Text and images should compose a narrative that tells the story you have designed.

Text describing your proposal. Give your proposal a title which conveys the theme(s) of your design.

Plan showing the relationship between Mill Creek Mini-Golf and relevant features of its context, such as the sewer, surrounding grade, adjacent land uses, etc.

Site plan of Mill-Creek Mini-Golf at 1"=30' with proposed grading

Plan of portion of Mill-Creek Mini-Golf at 1/16"=1'

Sections at 1/16"=1', 1/8"=1', and/or 1/4"=1' showing existing and proposed grades. Include scale figures!

At least two detail design studies at 1/2" = 1'

A constructed perspective drawing or model of subarea at 1"=16'

Plan/diagram/drawing of water flow illustrating quantities of water, direction and quality of movement, seasonal and daily variations.

Other plans and sketches showing specific features significant to your proposed design.

Any other graphic material necessary to describe the main themes/features of your proposed design.

Discussion and Review

Reviews of work will take place in several modes: self evaluation; peer review; studio-wide review and discussion, both internally and with outside critics. Sulzberger students will review selected work.

Calendar: Mini Golf Part II

This calendar is subject to change. Plan to be in studio every class for the entire period.

November 12

November 14

November 17

November 19

November 21

November 24

November 26

November 28

December 1

December 3

December 4

Desk crits of design and grading plan at 1" = 30'

Desk crits of design of subarea at 1/16" = 1'

Pin-up review and discussion of 1/16" plan, sections, and two detail design studies at 1/2" = 1'

Desk crits of plan and sections of three to four holes at 1/8" or 1/4" = 1' (showing barriers, diversions, earthworks, walls, curbs, traps, etc.)

Desk crits of plan and sections of three to four holes at 1/8" or 1/4" = 1' (showing barriers, diversions, earthworks, walls, curbs, traps, etc.)

Desk crits of proposed websites and constructed perspective of golf course subarea or 1/16"= 1' scale model

Desk crits; Web pages online by 10PM

THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY–NO CLASS

Internal review and discussion

Review/discussion with outside critics 1:00-5:30 PM

ALL STUDIO WORK FROM THE ENTIRE SEMESTER IS DUE (If you wish to make revisions to past work, they must be done by this date.)

Skills

Giving ideas material form: moving fluently back and forth from the conceptual to the material/formal, to details of construction. Web authoring: presenting your ideas persuasively; telling the story and your design vividly E-mail: participating in on-line discussion to share information and ideas Reflective practice: self-evaluation; peer review