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A Skate park that glides the land & drops into the sea

Drop in from on high; define the site for the skate park by taking the three raised parts of the site: in the middle, the pedestrian ramp over the restaurant – on one side, the conical hill near the stadium – on the other side, the slope up to the plateau over the ocean. Connect the dots and make a ‘T’ over the ground: it provides a surface, within the overall park, on which to skate the park. Let the elevated areas form the skate park: the skate park flows down the ramp -- it flows through the hill -- it flows up the mound and off the edge of the plateau, it drops into the sea like a wave.


On either side of the pedestrian ramp over the bridge, skating strips wave up and down as they roll down the hill. They rise and cross in mid-air, over the pedestrian walkway.


One strip rolls up and down toward the conical hill. It burrows into the hill and curves around itself into a sphere. The sphere loops through itself and proliferates, a sphere-within-a-sphere-within a sphere. You skate from one bowl into another. Where a sphere intersects the outer surface of the hill, it makes a crevice in the hill; sunlight spills in through the crevice, you walk up the hill and look in through a crevice.


The other strip heads toward the slope. It loops and rises, step by step, up the slope. You skate along a strip, or ollie from one strip up to another. You grind on the edges of the strips. On the plateau, the strip curve into quarter pipes, half-pipes – from short to long, from shallow to seep – out over the ocean. You leap up toward the sky, over the sea.


The green concrete gradates to blue. The skate park is lit at night: where the concrete shifts, it splits and leaves a crescent of light.




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