The Spark

Imagine a Walt Disney Park that is always a perfect 72 degrees and the rain never falls. Guests can just walk from their resort rooms directly into the park.  Where could you find a geographic location where the weather is also perfect? It can be anywhere because it is a fully enclosed park. The full enclosed space allow the benefit of the broadest possible site planning not constrained to the all year warmer climates. While it does provide a benefits of expanding the Disney brand to area that were not previously possible; it does bring new challenges in master planning.


This project is to take the challenge and design a Disney indoor park that would be ability to have placement in your backyard.


I live in the Minneapolis area. The Mall of America is a super-regional shopping and entertainment center. In the United States, it is the second largest enclosed mall in terms of retail space but is largest in terms of total enclosed floor area. Opened in 1992, the mall received 40 million visitors in 2006 and still continues to grow. Mall of America has a gross area of 4.2 million sq ft. (390,000 m²), with 2.5 million sq ft. (230,000 m²) available as retail space.

In addition to retail space in an indoor amazement park.  Nickelodeon Universe is an indoor theme park in the center of the mall, formerly known as Knotts Camp Snoopy, Camp Snoopy, and The Park at MOA. The park features roller coasters, among numerous other rides and attractions, and is the largest indoor theme park in the United States. Unlike many indoor amusement parks, Nickelodeon Universe has a great deal of natural foliage in and about the park, and its floor has a wide variance in height - the highest ground level in the park is 15 feet above the lowest. This allows for a far more naturalistic experience than would normally occur in an indoor amusement park.

The park features two new roller coasters; SpongeBob SquarePants Rock Bottom Plunge and Avatar Airbender.

It also has a golfing section called Moose Mountain. With 18 holes, designed to create a challenge for players hoping to seek a hole in one.

The Spark is to create an self contained resort and theme park under one roof.  Below is simple concept of combining resorts, park lands, shopping and entertainment into unified themes to create an immersive experience from waking to entering the park.