Designing Local - SIGNED RECOMMENDATION (RFP24-029) - 04.22.2024
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CITY OF SMYRNA PUBLIC ART CONSULTANT PROPOSAL 1616 DEMONSTRATED EXPERIENCE AFTEr iMPLEMENTATiON • the Athens Engineering and Public Works Department will be in charge of design specification and manufacture of the bike racks. • Bike racks could be manufactured and/or assembled in-house by the City of Athens or outsourced. • research must be thorough for appropriate paint for metals. A durable paint and finish will need to withstand the heavy scraping of u-locks as well as cable locks and their associated pad locks. Paint must also survive a variety of heavy materials from bicycles that will rub against the paint many times a day. • As the paint colors are important to resemble the colors of real Athens Block bricks, careful consideration must go in to decision- making on these colors. (Consult the Athens municipal Arts Commission.) • these new bike bollards should be placed throughout the City of Athens. • the Athens Engineering and Public Works Department will install and maintain the bike racks as it does all public infrastructure. PubLiC PrOJECTS - biCyCLE rACKS 110 110 THOuGHT PrOCESS During the Essence of Athens Committee’s brainstorming / napkin sketch process, one particular Athens Block design clearly emerged as especially intriguing to the Committee. Designers took the napkin sketch and added an extra line to graphically capture the two existing straight lines on the Athens Block. then each individual rack was given one of three colors in order to resemble the colors of real Athens Block brick. (A shade of orange-red, a muted purple hue, and a special shade of brickish brown were added to make the bike racks come alive and look more like actual bricks and less like a random shape). These colors will make the greatest impacts when a row of these racks are implemented. Other ideas (bottom left) were taken from The Ridges’ window grates. it was determined that since the crosswalks would use the ridges patterns, Athens Block brick should be the spotlighted for signature Athens bike racks. PubLiC PrOJECTS - biCyCLE rACKS 109 PrivATE PrOJECTS - bLOCK STAMP 147 INSPIRATION & IDEATION CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT IMPLEMENTATION