03 IN TANDEM

Rice University Design Competition Winner

Rice University currently lacks a unifiable bicycle parking typology, implicating numerous problems for the University’s goals of a more bicycle-oriented campus community. A simple and identifiable covered bicycle parking strategy will inspire pride in biking culture on campus. In Tandem is durable, secure, contextual, modular, efficient. It is simple and it is light. Through its modest form and subtle illuminance, the bike parking structure transforms into a campus icon, easily recognized as it deploys across campus. In Tandem functions as a subtle intervention to inspire pride for Rice’s increasingly bike-focused community.

FALL 2020 - ONGOING

Steel Tube

2’’x2’’ Steel Tube

Base Plate

Bedding Space

Holding Down Bolt

Steel Packing

Poured Concrete Beam

Anchor Plate previous

01. previous page, left. Perspective Render. Proposed location in front of Fondren Library.

02. previous page, right, top. Existing Context Photographs. Existing bike racks on campus are improperly used and made of contextually insensitive, off-the-shelf solutions.

03. previous page, right, middle. Concept Diagrams. A standard bike parking dimension is extruded up and out to function both as the lock mechanism and as shelter.

End Closure

Waterproofing