Bicycle Park

Architecture Studio | Second Year

Four organizations housed in The Bread Box at 501 West Sixth Street—Broke Spoke, Food Chain, Smithtown Seafood, and West Sixth Brewery—were selected as clients for a new downtown multi-use structure. Inspired primarily by Broke Spoke and Food Chain, the design emphasizes movement and perception through innovative green technology.

The long, narrow site features two nodes at either end, linked by cantilevered multi-use rampways extending over Water Street. To support these structures, this section of Water Street is proposed for bicycle and pedestrian traffic only. The ramps create a procession parallel to E Vine Street, guiding movement through the site.

A key design feature is the integration of vertical algae photo-bioreactor tubes, managed by Food Chain, wrapping the entire structure. These tubes, running perpendicular to the ramps, generate a “Moire Effect”—a visual phenomenon of shifting patterns, as seen in UNStudio’s Galleria Centercity in Cheonan, South Korea. The effect is intensified by varying tube diameters, creating a dynamic, expanding, and contracting “surface.”

At the vertical crossing of the ramps, the Moire Effect is centered, with the thinnest tubes and ramps providing clearer sightlines through the structure. Moving outward toward the nodes, tube diameters increase, and ramp profiles thicken, causing the façade to shift in appearance from a single surface to a collection of individual elements, depending on the observer’s perspective.

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