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Design Bridge - School Bicycle Shelters (USA)

DesignBridge is a multi-disciplinary, student organisation linking the University of Oregon with the surrounding community by offering design and design-build services to clients. By 2011 DesignBridge had worked with three school communities to design and build bicycle parking shelters. The students were treated as the project clients and all three school have seen ridership increase.

The Edison Bike Shelter Project was driven by the desire to promote biking as a healthy form of transportation and aimed to increase ridership among local elementary school students. The team improved the covered area by installing additional lighting and bike racks, fabricating a wood bench, and giving the entry gate a face-lift.

The Roosevelt Bike Shelter Project grew out of a need to provide a central sheltered area for children to park their bikes. The final design is a steel and wood structure located at the center of a group of u-shaped classroom buildings.

The Camas Pedal provides bike-parking facilities and creating a beautiful covered outdoor space where children could gather, or wait for parents. The steel and wood structure will serve as an iconic form and is part of a large-scale effort to engage children in the outdoors and a more sustainable way of living.

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