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Posted by Warm Worm on May 8, 2006, 4:30 pm
"eds"
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> "3D Peruna"
>> Bret Cahill wrote:
> Back in the day when I worked in offices (admittedly funky ones) I brought
> my bike up the elevator and locked it to my desk. ADA compliant elevators
> easily hold bikes.
> EDS
You hit the nail on the head, EDS. I just posted something similar.
Sometimes some "design" solutions are but mere matters of a change in
mentality, which of course lead to changes in behavior and expectation.
I've seen pictures of design offices, for example, with designers' bikes in
the offices leaning against everything.
They're attractive machines and they add to the office decor and ambiance.
If you're fun enough, you could even add a bike track that circumnavigates
the office for those who want to get in a little excercise during their
breaks. Yes, you can even drink coffee while riding a bike.
In fact, here are two of my older alt.arch posts on the subject. (Good god I
was using my own name! :)
> > "gorotka" hi! i'm a polish student in a german university and i am now
> > making my thesis... the subject is the center for youth where one could
> > go spontaneously to relax, forget about the problems of the everyday
> > life. it's gonna be a net created in the city, consisted of different
> > builings (places) in the spots of the biggest concentration of youth. i
> > talked with a youth psychologist to know better the psyche of youth,
> > then i made an interview with the pupils of the secondary school. what
> > they said they needed to relax was: energy, silence, nature, music,
> > water, fire, motion (trainings), candles, flavours, sun, sleep,
> > happenings... i have to make the program for the buildings, that would
> > consist somehow these elements. it would be good if there were some
> > unconventional ideas. i'm trying hard to make it up but i guess i need a
> > kind of brainstorming to have fresh thoughts... maybe some of you would
> > suggest me, how to put such function in a building and how to make the
> > net of few buildings work? i'm in a big trouble...
> Hi Gorotka. Ready? Here goes... - have a weaving, hilly indoor
> bicycle/skateboard track. Young people and people like me like to bike
> indoors on something more than boring stationary bikes when it's bad
> weather outside. - have a pool with a very tall water slide and diving
> boards. Have a shallow-water track to bike. Yes that's right- bike in a
> pool. Have the pool have a sealed window where you can watch people under
> water, such as for when they dive from great heights and their bathing
> suits momentarily come off...
Rest of thread:
Big:
http://groups.google.ca/group/alt.architecture/browse_thread/thread/b095751390c93563/649fb2699ae560b2?lnk=st&q=track+bike+group%3Aalt.architecture&rnum=1&hl=en#649fb2699ae560b2
Tiny:
http://tinyurl.com/rcear
And...
> Incidentally, Pierre, I am curious to know what the maximum angle for a
> ramp that conforms to wheelchair access might be. You see, I was thinking
> of winding a glass-enclosed ramp, instead of stairs, around (part of?) the
> outside portion of the structure where the area it occupies could also
> function as a kind of "insulation-barrier". I like the idea because, even
> if there's little need for wheelchair access, it might also be bike,
> child's tricycle and furniture-moving friendly... Maybe I could even wrap
> it around the entire perimeter or even integrate its path into the
> balconies' for a multifunctional utilitarian/walking/running/biking track.
Rest of thread:
Big:
http://groups.google.ca/group/alt.architecture/browse_thread/thread/91ad1648b3b7ed94/02198de615ca50e0?lnk=st&q=track+bike+group%3Aalt.architecture&rnum=2&hl=en#02198de615ca50e0
Tiny:
http://tinyurl.com/n8zub
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