Bicycle Center Review Notes

Bikes.
The site, a public space, reactivated.
The client, Demetrius Kaley Square and youth volunteers.
Nodes of activity:
Existing playground, eating, add
Beacon sculpture, illumination and safety
Diurnal pavilion, day shade, night light
Bike activity program, storage, hosted workspace, adjacent bike workspace. Gradient of openness that acknowledges the flow of the program.

Theatre. Why not poetry jam at the bike pavilion?

Need a neighborhood scale site plan showing bike paths, connections between institutions. Bus stop, etc. The monochromatic map not engaging. Is the beacon mappable? Is shade mappable? Juice Bikes map? Prediction? What if? map. Since the container is relocatable, what might the impact be? The maps and information are still not convincing me that the siting is right.
Not by the bus stop because we don't want to be a bus stop. Use it to draw people in.

The thing.
Block the heat before it hits the building. Canopy? Is a funnel for nodes. What about localized spatial conditions? Gathering? Bike repair? street? Landscaping and planting creates spatial definition in the park.
What is the defining geometry for the canopy? Huge is this made constructional? How does this make space, differentiate space? Inverted gradient? What about night? Lantern imagery? Refectors?
Borrow shade from the site by positioning with trees.
Ramp?
What is the experience of the building? From distance? Signage and maps? Super graphics?
What is the human experience? Bike blender. Human operable elements.
Is there a view from the street, thru trees?
Incentives for volunteering? Juice bike sponsors? This is for the operator to decide.

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Stephen D. Bender, AIA
UF Citylab Orlando
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