Linear Wrap Bike Shelter

The last project of first year studio required students to design a bike shelter with a group of seven. This bike shelter must be able to comfortable seat three, and must be able to safely accommodate ten bikes. Recycled materials must account for the majority of the construction. “Linear Wrap Bike Shelter” is based on the notion of how we define spaces. We started off with a rectangular prism the size of a parking spot with seven feet of clearance. On the surfaces of this rectangle, one continuous line was drawn, only differing in the angles of protrusion onto adjacent planes. Then, we imagined this line to be a cut across the surfaces of our shape. Next, we took the negative of this model, so rather the cut being transparent, it has now become opaque, and the wall transparent. With the previous shape of the line cut, enough wall area was still opaque to define the space as an indoor space, but by taking the negative of this model, the nature of the space changed along with it. Questions raised in this exercise include: what does it take to perceive a space, and to what extent can we push this perception, while maintaining its illusion? Materials: reclaimed 2″x8″ Douglas Fir Professor: Orhan Ayyüce ARC 103L