Architect: Muller&Muller, Ltd
Location: Chicago, IL, army
Client: City of metropolis Department of Transportation
Program : parking for 300 bikes / cycle bushel and parts class / showers and lockers / metropolis cycle personnel send / takeout restaurant / cycle rental
Project Area: 1,486 sqm
Budget: US $3,000,000
Photographs: Nathan Kirkman& parliamentarian Murphy
This send was constructed on threesome levels on crowning of and beneath the north crossway of Chicago’s Millennium Park. The artefact includes bonded hardware expanse for 300 bicycles, individualist period ingest lockers, clannish descent stalls, and a cycle bushel area. The determine of the newborn artefact is to encourage and encourage commuter cycle installation into downtown Chicago. The antiquity also houses the metropolis lakefront cycle guard and rents bikes for hourly use.
A glass-enclosed atrium course the digit bunk levels and gives a street proximity to the mostly below- evaluate facility. The atrium, though small, provides a noble entry for the building. Its bomb is fashioned to be forcefulness efficient, incorporating uncolored ventilation, circumpolar rooftop picture electricity panels, and surround graduation devices imperturbable of artifact awnings and rise existence material. The cycle send has been constructed within the constraints of an existing parking garage scheme which forms the humble of Millennium Park. Interior cycle send spaces are fashioned to tap the restricted way provided by this garage structure. Much of the expanse is beneath evaluate so lighting, colours and materials were chosen to wage a gleaming frolicky equal expanse avoiding the domineering significance of existence underground. The binary levels of the send place also presented the difficulty of agitated bikes up and down. This impediment was overcome by incorporating upgrade ramps into the edges of baritone shape stairs.
general section
Plazas were additional at digit levels to alter retail /cafe functions and stream cycle parking for primary events. The atrium scheme was fashioned with an outmost bomb of unsullied poise cables on which rise plants module grow. Once mature, the plants module wage solarise graduation in the season and module modify their leaves in season to earmark in the hot sun. The outmost layers of the wound are created with combinations of lax planes floating around the inner, more solidified shell. The antiquity dissolves as it moves outward. Plants ontogeny on the antiquity are aerated same antiquity materials. They module be tightly lopped into solidified mats of ontogeny attractive on nonrepresentational architectural forms allowing the antiquity to modify its attendance over time. Vines acquire to counterbalance more of the building, flowers develop and recede, and leaves modify disclosing the building’s structure. The Bike Station becomes conception of the tract by using the park’s possess touchable as its cladding.
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