Hungry Golf is a modular mini golf course that takes players through some of Inman's most popular restaurants and their dishes, demonstrating Inman's diverse and delicious cuisine.

The holes are specifically designed to get people to appreciate the diversity in their community, and the modular design of the course allows it to be transported with relative ease, ensuring everyone gets a special experience.

Hungry Golf

Inman Square

Inman Square is an ethnically diversified area that is home to professionals, workers, and students and academics from nearby MIT and Harvard. Inman Square is also heavily influenced by Brazilian and Portuguese culture, as shown by the stores bordering Cambridge Street, particularly to the east of Prospect Street.

Inman Square is most likely named after Ralph Inman (1713-1788), a Boston merchant and gentleman of wealth. He had considerable economic interests along the Boston waterfront and, along with Thomas Sodden, possessed 400 acres (which included "what is now the Port." Inman also possessed a "large, three-story rambling mansion" in "Cambridge, a little genteel Town about 4 Miles off (from Boston) where a number of Gentlemen's Families live upon their Estates." This includes the Brattles, who inspired the name Brattle Square.

The Client

• Executive director of East Cambridge Business Association
• Bring a mini golf night to "activate" Inman Square

Jason Alves, Daniel Wolf- on behalf of the City of Cambridge

The Research

• The course folds up like a board game
• Separate pieces are attached via hooks
• Hinges allow for easy flat storage
• Small baseplate holes with removable obstacles

Here's some of the common methods of designing modular mini golf courses:

Constraints:

• Easily stored and set up by 1-2 people in 45 minutes
• Durable and weather resistant
• Easy to store and move to other locations

Site Analysis

• The project didn't really depend on the site. However, the size of the parking lot did determine how big the golf course is.
• Needed to find a way to make the course a decent enough size while also keeping it as compact as possible

Storyboard

First Approach

• Removable obstacles
• Small baseplate

What worked: the whole removable obstacles idea

What didn't: baseplate was still taking up a lot of space

Second Approach

• Connector method
• Pegs in some pieces, holes in others

What worked: small pieces meant easy storage

What didn't: the obstacles still stuck out, meaning the pieces could not be stacked

HOLE 1: 1369

HOLE 2: S&S

HOLE 3: CASA PORTUGAL

HOLE 4: ALL STAR PIZZA

HOLE 5: THE DRUID

HOLE 6: OLÉ

Shape

Storage

Final Product

• Combination of the first two
• Dowels connected the platforms, removable objects
• Added a couple of hinges on some of the bigger holes for even easier storage

Questions?

An Deireadh