Week 13

Week 13

 

i looked at floating architecture and decided it wouldn't work. the brisbane river will be the only clean entity left in the city in the future so i decided it would be best to keep it that way and not use the river.

looking at connections across the river and the possibility of building on the river

floating river pod which transports people across and along river

'living island hub'

going away from the river idea...

looking at street directions in Brisbane city grid

successful and symbolic axis in canberra

lack of successful axis in Brisbane's city grid 

I'm beginning to look at how the existing street can be adapted to a street for bicycles with green spaces

incorporating a building into the middle of streets and intersections

mixed-use building with retail, bike storage, office space and residential space

working out occupancy of building spaces and therefore how many bike parks would be needed, more bikes would fit if an automated bike parking system were installed underground

circulation through building for bikes, how will it work?

could this building have pieces that detach from it?

looking at the option of modular parts, modular stations which adapt a little to suit the location of the station.

Street typologies, looking at which streets work and why.

how the street would work with these buildings taking up the spaces in between buildings where they can attach to certain parts of the building

i began thinking about how all the bikes would be stored and about how this system would work.  i came across this idea of an automated bike park and retrieval system which is currently being used in Japan and some parts of Europe. the retrieval pod is quite small and all the bikes are stored underground.  it is a very quick and convenient system to store bikes and get them off the streets.

http://techcrunch.com/2009/11/06/japan-wins-again-with-automatic-bike-parking-and-retrieval-system/


 this is a more common form of bike parking which is not underground however features bike stands which sit above one another

and another...

 and another...

 and here is a bike park for bikes only which seems to take up a lot of room

this is an above ground automated bike parking system

 on street parking converted to bike parking

triple story bike parks in denmark

automated bike park in europe retrieval pod

 japan automated bike retrieval system

i found this great idea by a Japanese designer which would work really well with my system.

 i took my 900 square metre floor plate and saw how many cars would fit in the space and then how many bikes.  the space saved was huge.  i then placed the same number of bikes into the space of an automated b ike store system and it was half the size of my floorplate.  i decided that I would place one of these at the bottom of every buildng.

i also began thinking about services and how this might work in a bike city...