HYBRID SKATEPARK

TUDelft Master Thesis

Bandung (Indonesia), Pasupati Flyover

June 2015

Downloadable PDFs at TUDelft Repository (Link){https://repository.tudelft.nl/islandora/object/uuid:8f1981c6-af04-460a-9fa9-a9d2350fa987?collection=education}

‘The Hybrid’ is located between the most central kampungs of Bandung (Indonesia) and is conceived as an urban facilitator of activities (mainly skateboarding & BMX) for the youngsters and surrounding kampung inhabitants. 8 The 8 million youngsters in Bandung have little chances to cultivate their passions, particularly skateboarders who only have 2 small skateparks and 1 mini-ramp within the whole city.

Merging a skatepark with a community center enhances the kampung, providing for a safe and dynamic place to stay, meet, do skateboarding while fostering a new commercial, cultural, religious hub, always open and self-regulated by the users themselves.

In a fast-developing city, where needs can change in a matter of a few years, flexibility is key and skateboarders, in order to improve their skills, need to skate different courses.

As kampung skateboarders have little to no chance to travel around, the skatepark will change for them: skatepark ramps (skate-components) can easily be swapped with new ones designed by the skateboarders themselves and produced in loco within the urban facilitator using only local Indonesian woods. Skate-components design is generated with parametric design and their construction exploits CNC milling machines

HYBRID SKATEPARK — Sections — 01SectionsABOVE: section cut at the mosque (down) skate bowl (up) UNDER: section cut at the wood workshop (down) skatepark (up)

HYBRID SKATEPARK — Urban Facilitator — 02Urban FacilitatorMeandering through the urban facilitator

HYBRID SKATEPARK — Mosque — 03MosqueThe surrounding of the mosque taken over by street seller coming from all over the adjacent kampung

HYBRID SKATEPARK — Museum of Skate — 04Museum of SkatePermanent exhibition of skate items within the urban facilitator.

HYBRID SKATEPARK — Commercial Venue — 05Commercial VenueBandung is famous for a booming youth fashion culture. Start-ups & designers use the urban facilitator to sell or promote their products

HYBRID SKATEPARK — Night concert — 06Night concertDuring the night the urban facilitator transforms and attracts music bands, street artists, new 'layers' of youth culture.

HYBRID SKATEPARK — Bowl-a-Rama international contest — 07Bowl-a-Rama international contestGiven the uniqueness of the skatepark design, international skate competition can be organized to thus making Bandung la mecca of skateboarding in Indonesia.

HYBRID SKATEPARK — Skatepark — 08SkateparkSkateboarders enjoy an endless series of lines, suitable for any level of skateboarding. The street skatepark has manual pads, fun-boxes, quarter pipes, banks, bump to bump, rails, gaps, 3 miniramps with different heights and extensions and a big Bowl.

HYBRID SKATEPARK — Assembly Diagram — 09Assembly DiagramOnly local Indonesian woods are used: Rubberwood plywood 1” thick is used to cut out the parts that will form the skate-component Coconut fiber composite panels are used to panel the skate-components. Bamboo culms are tied together with traditional Indonesian rope (to avoid buckling) to form the structural columns. Skate-components are secured in position through a simple bolt & nut connection. This solution makes it easier in the assembly/disassembly process due to maintenance or substitution of old skate-components with new ones. Components can be cut and assembled within the wood-workshop and put in position through cranes or they can be directly assembled on top of the columns, avoiding the use of a crane.

HYBRID SKATEPARK — Diagrams — 10DiagramsABOVE: function distribution within the urban facilitator. UNDER: skatepark typologies and abacus of skate-components used

HYBRID SKATEPARK — Planivolumetrics — 11PlanivolumetricsABOVE: Urban Facilitator UNDER: Skatepark

HYBRID SKATEPARK — Urban Facilitator - AXO — 12Urban Facilitator - AXOUrban Facilitator axonometric view

HYBRID SKATEPARK — Skatepark - AXO — 13Skatepark - AXOSkatepark axonometric view

HYBRID SKATEPARK — Details — 14DetailsLEFT: plinth/column/skate-component section 1:20 MID-UP: skate-comp/column bolt-&-nut connection 1:20 MID-DOWN: skate-comp/skate-comp bolt-&-nut connection RIGHT: Skate-comp/skate-comp/steel joint bolt-&-nut connection.

HYBRID SKATEPARK — Maquette 1 — 15Maquette 1Materialization (scale 1:25) of a significant part of the project where skate-components have notable height variation and display a wide arrange of shapes. SKATERAMPS: made out of 2mm MDF laser-cut parts that snap-fits and are glued together thus forming skate-components. BASE: Fiber-reinforced concrete cast in CNC milled polyurethane mold.

HYBRID SKATEPARK — Maquette 2 — 16Maquette 2Materialization (scale 1:25) of a significant part of the project where skate-components have notable height variation and display a wide arrange of shapes. SKATERAMPS: 2mm MDF laser-cut parts are snap-fit and glued together thus forming single skate-components BASE: Fiber-reinforced concrete cast in CNC milled polyurethane mold