Your Expert Guide to Wheel-Friendly Public Spaces
Helping you plan, design, and integrate skatepark style terrain into your community or project
The All-Wheel Landscape Specialists!
Rollerscape is not a traditional skatepark construction company. We are a specialty design and consulting practice, created to support landscape architects, urban planners, and municipal decision makers in the creation and integration of modern and progressive all-wheel skateparks and public spaces for all to enjoy.
Our Clients
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Municipalities
Planning to build a skatepark for your community, but want to take a more forward-thinking approach?
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Design Firms
Considering the inclusion of roller sports in your landscape design or public space, but not sure how to make it a success?
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Advocates
Advocating in your community for a new skatepark or rolling space and not sure how to go about it?
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NGOs
Running a youth or educational non-profit, and want to use roller sports to connect with participants?
Rollerscape is here to help!
Rollerscape offers purpose-built design and consultancy services at all project stages to fit the needs of your specific site, goals, and communities.
Consulting Services
Public Engagement
Public Engagement
When it comes to skatepark development, it can be difficult to build consensus within a diverse and complex user base. Typical surveys and workshops tend to fall short when it comes to something as unique as a skatepark. Do you want to design a one-of-a-kind space that the community feels deeply connected to? We offer an extensive background in public engagement, including but not limited to custom skatepark projects, and have seen firsthand what works and what doesn’t.
Skateparks can be highly contentious developments, not just between different active users, but also neighbors and adjacent spaces. Rollerscape’s experience in public engagement, including IAP2 certification in public participation, helps to bridge different perspectives and find common ground to allow you to create a beloved and celebrated public space without conflict.
Master Planning
Master Planning
Most conflict arises around skatepark projects when they are not planned thoughtfully. We believe the only way to truly meet the needs of your community and ensure the greatest social benefit of your investment is through a master planning or strategy exercise. Let's think holistically about how to build better rolling spaces for your community and we guarantee your local riders will feel the benefit when they roll through.
For the last 20 years, our principal designer has advocated for looking at the big picture before a design process starts. How can you best serve your community when developing these spaces? By making sure you consider all options, opportunities, challenges and trade-offs with your given space or budget. Too often skateparks are developed in an imbalanced manner that leads to wasted budget and frustrated communities. We help you get the balance right and will roll through your landscape to identify the best way to meet everyone’s needs.
Design
Design
Our founder has been a designer on over 100 skatepark projects across the world, with a strong track record of quality, innovation, and user satisfaction. The majority of these projects involved overseeing planning and engagement through design and construction, developing an intimate understanding of what works best at each phase.
Let us help guide your design towards something thoughtful, unique, well integrated, and most importantly really fun. Our design philosophy puts user needs and site context first, designing with the topography rather than fighting against it, yielding an efficient and effective space that facilitates fun and comes in on budget. Not sure about the best approach to developing your new space? Let’s talk!
Integration
Integration
How can you successfully incorporate opportunities for rolling and skatepark style terrain in your public space? Through thoughtful planning, meaningful community engagement, and design support that ensures the details are done right. Opportunities for integrated riding, such as a skate spot in a park or a multi-use plaza, are everywhere, but if you don't design and build the space correctly the users will feel it immediately, your community won't see the benefit for the investment, and the space won't be well used. Integrated rideable spaces present incredible opportunities to meet the needs of your local riders at a fraction of the cost, while also providing numerous social benefits for all members of community - when executed properly.
Questions, Answered
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Yes! We would love to be your skatepark designer of choice, ideally working with local landscape architecture, engineering, and construction firms in your community. Rollerscape also partners with top skatepark firms on projects that require additional support and a specialized team.
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Regardless of the size and scope of your project, having Rollerscape’s independent perspective is invaluable. From helping you get the materials right on a small skate spot to overseeing a city-wide planning process and more, we can provide whatever level of service you need. We are always happy to talk - schedule a call any time for a free initial planning and consultation chat.
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The bulk of the profit in the skatepark industry is in construction, and we do not build skateparks. But we know construction intimately, and can help with everything from bid review to site inspections and project reports. By removing that profit motive and setting aside our desire to just build what we want to skate, we provide a more impartial planning and design service that is focused entirely on maximizing community benefit for every dollar invested.
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We would love to! With our firsthand experience on both sides of the process, both as citizen advocates and as professional designers, we can provide lots of support and guidance for your initiative. Advice is always free, resources abound, and we are here to help.
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There is an increasing body of evidence and academic study of the benefits of skateparks, especially in educational spaces and youth organizations. We have firsthand experience building schools with skateparks and supporting educational non-profits and would love to volunteer our support.
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Rollerscape is a new practice run by veteran skatepark designer Chris Ray, with a lot of support from his brilliant wife Ashley, a communications and public engagement professional with experience at the non-profit, municipal, and federal level. While our team is currently small, we have partners in our network ready to join future projects as needed, including other experienced skatepark designers, urban planners, educators and builders all on board with the Rollerscape approach to development.
A Skate Urbanism Approach to Design
Our work is informed by the latest practices in skate urbanism, the growing movement in public space planning and design that actively integrates skateboarding and other roller sports into the public realm rather than excluding them.
From encouraging movement and supporting social cohesion to rejuvenating neglected urban spaces, the benefits of skate urbanism are well documented and wide ranging, but integrating rideable infrastructure can prove challenging for those unfamiliar with these activities. This is where we come in!
Our process emphasizes co-creation, consensus-building, and youth leadership, ensuring that the voices of those who will use the space are meaningfully included in shaping it.
Rollerscape
[ˈroʊlər.skeɪp] : Noun
A landscape where meaningful opportunities for playful rolling (whether on a bike, skateboard, rollerblades, wheelchair, scooter or any other wheeled recreational device) are thoughtfully integrated into its design. These spaces can include, but are not limited to, traditional skateparks.
Our Founder
Rollerscape was founded by skateboarder and landscape designer Chris Ray in 2025. After a decade in the industry and working on over 100 projects around the globe, Chris kept noticing the same issues arising across the industry - skateparks are not always planned thoughtfully, communities are not engaged meaningfully, consistent issues arise, and opportunities are missed. As a result, investments in these spaces weren’t being maximized, and the community benefit from their development often falls short.
Rollerscape was born out of a desire to address these issues by helping municipalities, firms, and advocates co-design holistic, innovative and integrated rolling spaces that offer the most return (of fun) on their investment and preserve playful public spaces for public good.
View Chris’s portfolio of past work at chrisraydesign.com