A collection of my projects

Urban Putt

Urban Putt is a small restaurant/mini golf course in the Mission neighborhood of San Francisco. The entire first floor is an indoor mini golf course with a general Steampunk theme. Each hole is built around a concept (such as “Duck Hunt”, or “Skeeball”) and often incorporate a reactive mechanism, robotic feature, or Victorian era embellishment.

I was involved at the beginning stages of concept development for individual holes. I helped sketch concepts, build full scale prototypes, and made digital models of key hole features as well as the spaces that would house them. Lotta’s fountain was recreated for a San Francisco themed hole that would simulate an earthquake. The hull of a submarine was designed to fit within an undersea themed room. A table-top game, based on the marble maze toy, was developed for large scale adaptation as a golf hole.

When the CNC router arrived, I became the primary technician. I mastered it’s operation, capabilities, and gave tutorials on both to my fellow designers. I appeared in the Kickstarter campaign video explaining the digital fabrication capabilities of the router and how those capabilities would be used to fabricate each hole.

After the successful funding of the Kickstarter campaign, and the hard work of the entire team of designers, Urban Putt successfully opened and remains in operation today as a unique mini golf experience, which I was thrilled to be a part of.

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