Bike racks can be visually integrated with the built environment
Right down the road there's a really lovely example of bike racks being integrated into a campus's built environment, with landscaping and sculpture. Next time you walk by, take a closer look at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts.
Note that from inside their Grossman Gallery, one must be able to see the parked bicycles. The iron sculpture of circles (presumably "wheels") helps create a physical and visual barrier between the street and the bike parking.
Also note how the paving stones lead one onto their (albeit small) campus, and clearly include the rack area as part of campus. Along with the sculpture, there is some shrubbery that helps delineate the bike parking from street, and also, thereby, helps protect the bike area from "outsiders."
This design is worthy of emulation! Nicely done.
I'm not a designer, only an appreciator, otherwise I'd try to propose something for this:
Although there is also the easy route, which Berkelee School of Music took.
Posted: April 9, 2008 9:03 pm by Kimberly Brookes | 0 comments
Tags: Berkelee School of Music, Bicycles, bike racks, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, sculpture, Simmons College