MINIATURE GOLF COURSE PROJECT

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The city council members of a small resort town are considering a request that they received from a retired couple, Abe and Sarah Jones. The Jones' wish to build a miniature golf course and have provided the following preliminary information:

Vacationers consider a miniature golf course to be a secondary form of entertainment. As such, it must be clearly visible from a major route, close to hotels and other attractions, and have a theme that has substantial visual impact from the road. A miniature golf course helps support the overall economy in resort areas because it provides a diversion for vacationers, especially during inclement weather.

Today tourist are more sophisticated and prefer a course that has a comprehensive theme (e.g. wild west, pirates, or cartoon characters), holes that are cleverly engineered with varying degrees of difficulty, and a landscape that provides the illusion of space between each hole.

The Jones' have found a commercially zoned rectangular plot of land, 100 ft by 100 ft, alongside State Route 1. Because Mr. Jones was a general contractor before he retired, he plans to submit a request for proposal that he will issue to park and landscape designers, choose the best plan, and then build the miniature golf course himself.

The city planners have given the Jones' the go ahead to issue their request for proposal. They will give their final approval after they evaluate the plans.

You are a landscape designer/architect. You will submit a bid for this contract. Your bid proposal will contain the following elements.

  1. A persuasive cover letter to the Jones' arguing why they should choose your design. It should be followed by a detailed description of the course. The description shall contain the overall theme of the course, and a one-paragraph description of each hole, explaining its design and how the design will contribute to the appearance and difficulty level of each hole, and a good summary paragraph at the end.
  2. A scale drawing of the nine-hole miniature golf course. Every hole will be diagramed as well as the thematic decorations, shrubs, and other structure that you design on the course. You will affix the enire diagram onto a sheet of poster board.
  3. A complete scale-diagram, of each hole (nine in all). In each scale drawing, the reflections used to determine the path of the ball will be included. The holes must have varying difficulty. That is, in order to get a hole in one, golfers must bank the ball of at least one wall.
  4. Of the nine holes, three must require one bounce, three must require two bounces, two must require three bounces, and one must require four bounces.

The Jones' are expecting bids from single designers. However, if two persons wish to work together, they must also include: a three-dimensional scale model of one of the holes in the golf course. The scale must be written on the model.