Please browse the categories below and see all submissions for the Cycling Visionaries Awards. The submissions will remain published in their totality of 218 ideas/projects/visions originating from 49 countries to demonstrate the global diversity of urban cycling cultures and their growing importance.
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Modular bike base made from containers units cutted in to three pieces. The main adventage of this sollution is possibilty to conform to area and people needs. Originally designed on the north artery of Ljubljana called Dunajska cesta.
118 votes
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Beijing’s bicycle culture needs a comeback. Cars, roads, and smog now consume the city, as “modern” residents leave their bicycles behind. This project proposes a bicycle transit center prototype for Beijing, woven as a network into the elevated highways that dominate the once human-scale city. The bicycle centers create an attractive alternative lifestyle to catalyze a bicycle revival in Beijing.
622 votes
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The idea of our proposal is to create a sort of pit stop for all bicycle users
composed from modular units or shipping containers. It provides a shelter
for cyclers, a place where they could meet, refresh and rest.
95 votes
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What is NGONTHEL ?
"Ngonthel" in Indonesia means CYCLING . It is kind of old bicycle which is used by old Indonesian as an old transportation use around the city. In this project, we would like to propose a new design of "cycle way" around the city to improve the cycling habit such as the activity to "bike to work" and many more.
139 votes
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The velo station is a service station for both, bicycle and human. It provides us with the opportunity to refill and service at neuralgic points. It gets your cycle ready for your next tour. Furthermore it is social space for the urban community. Velo station is the answer to empty petrol stations of the post-oil society. It can be seen as a cooperative architecture for the cycle at the same time
20 votes
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Urban cycling needs appropriate infrastructure! A new organizational element for road intersections may help: The Viennese diagonal aims especially at cycle highways and allows a “one-step crossing” in contrast to the traditional and widespread “two-step-crossing”, where cyclists need to wait at least one period at traffic lights and are being confronted with limited space and sharp turns.
170 votes
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Where is the nearest bicycle shop, public bicycle or bicycle parking lot? A collaborative map done by cyclists for cyclists is underway to answer that, also a map that helps citizens and government find the best routes for cycling in downtown. For the next 3 years Rio will spend a lot on roadwork for the Olympics 2016, so it’s the golden hour to map and implement new infrastructure for bicycles.
106 votes
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BIke base + cyclist LAB
This bike base, energetically indipendent, is conceveid as an urban cyclist shelter, opened 24h, when you can check up tire pressure, repair the bike, charge your device, have meals or chat with friends.
A dinamyc and flexible space, that would revitalize part of the city. The project combine 3 shipping container and would be a landmark in urban skyline.
135 votes
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The project ........ is a linear structure which is transformed into an urban sculpture, which functions as a self-sustaining building formed by horizontal planes and vertical planes which are horizontal beams 5 sectors interrelated, which define different spatial and functional qualities, the fences or boundaries have varied. Although closely related modules function as both isolated elements in the sense that to be structurally self can be changed or removed without affecting the overall concept.
24 votes
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A modular & replicable bicycle station that can adapt to a number of different sites and contexts. Base containment units allow for adaptable program requirements (bicycle repair, rest stops, electric bicycle charging, etc...). Functional requirements are provided through sustainable technologies integrated into the project design. In this particular example, the site is located in Ljubljana.
1 votes
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VELO IN is a special gastronomical resting place concept for cyclists, which offers a drive-through for bikes. Furthermore the bike acts as center of the draft, which can be seen in the three different types and possibilities of resting. Bike and cyclist stay together all along their stop at a VELO IN station; from the arrival and the order to the sitting/resting place and finally the departure.
47 votes
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Green Way Terzolle - a series of action to design the landscape
148 votes
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Project of urban bike and rest station can take place in any place near the cycling paths, in city center or in a city park. It is represented as a series of pavilion living rooms. Project is composed of 3 modular shipping containers cut into 7 pieces. The whole composition can be very easily transported to any other location.
19 votes
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The main idea of the project is to make bike culture visible in the city. For that we propose ‘race’ as a urban game in which bicycle paths together with bike stations create a chain of possible bike tracks in Ljubljana. The stations function as check points providing basic city information and as ‘pit stops’ for service and as simple shelter in case of bad weather.
1 votes
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modular bycicle station that includes service, snack, wifi etc.
1 votes
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Shouldn't a cyclist, who uses the most eco- friendly mode of transport and yet is relegated to the fringes of a road, be allowed the right to bypass traffic and cut from point A to point B through the city greens? What if we connect these green short-cuts to form an exclusive cycle tracks network for the city?
7 votes
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A training guide intended to empower members of campuses to make effective long-term changes in support of bicycling, drawing on international examples. Design considerations, policy mechanisms, and even scientific methods are addressed.
261 votes
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Bikesplorations connects youth, bicycling, education, health, training about the built environment & related careers. Using cycling as a mode of transportation & a symbol for change, youth begin to think about why their environments look the way they do. Youth engaged in positive physical activities with exposure to mentors and professionals, will expand their vision for who they can be.
53 votes
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The backyard cycle club is located in a northern german city’s backyard. The backyard and the old buildings inside it has been transformed into a public club including a cycle way, a public repair shop and a cafe/ bar where the neighbourhood can drive around, repair their bikes and meet for a chat. The cycle way is cutting a slot into the old buildings, which creates a new interesting room.
62 votes
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Supporting Canadian municipalities to adopt Complete Streets policies. Complete Streets policies ensure safe and comfortable access to streets for pedestrians, cyclists, and public transit users of all ages and abilities is not an afterthought, but an integral part of the planning process for the construction, retrofitting, and maintenance of all roadways.
15 votes
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Venice, the city on water, is an amazing work of art, a living museum, and real-world example for urban planners seeking to help reduce car use, increase physical activity, and maximize the enjoyment of public space. Yet presently, the bicycle, that miraculous invention with so much to offer a healthier, more sustainable city, has no role beyond children's play in plazas. Why not float bikeways?
136 votes
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The central idea of the project is the prototype combination of the tree Trimo modular units in a way so they form an active layout which would provoke social interaction and creative use of both indoor and outdoor spaces generated. The tree volumes stand on different positions depending on their content and are aligned in such a way to maximize open spaces between them, as well as providing accessibility and structural support one to each other.
6 votes
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Self-sufficient bike base designed as a sustainable and repeatable building accompanying the bike paths on the green cities.
The Program
• A meeting point for cyclists, a place for refreshment and rest.
• Servicing bicycles and electrical bicycles,
• Free wireless internet connection,
• Charging batteries for computers, mobile phones.
• Charging for electrical bicycles and motorcycles.
3 votes
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TBRs combine an advancement in cyclist facilities with the correction of shortcomings in the tram system in Vienna. TBRs ought to be installed alongside those already existing tram routes that connect centre and outskirts. On TBRs the tram runs on its proper track, while the street on both sides of the track is reserved for bikes. TBRs are priority roads, i.e. cross-roads are subordinated.
60 votes
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Proposal for a Bike Base in the city of Ljubljana. The Bike Base is a meeting point for cyclists and it combines the functions of pickup point for rental bikes, bike repairment, wifi hotspot, café and general meeting point in one compact building. The building is entirely constructed out of modular units and can be composed or decomposed at any site.
42 votes
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Our vision is to create a bikesharing system that improves current management processes.
It’s a smart system that learns from use, adapts to user’s needs and adjusts to the city.
We envision a bikesharing that no longer needs docking stations. It always has a pick up and drop off point nearby and it allows the interaction with other users and with the city. Get to know BikeEmotion, enjoy freedom!
404 votes
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Flumbo Bicycle Parking is a unique parking space created to guarantee the security of the bicycle and its fittings. A software and an electronic system control both the opening and locking function as well as pricing, invoicing and running, providing optimal implementation in Municipalities, towns, universities, work places.…
162 votes
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The Project, Close the GapS came from the idea of closing the gap in Manhattan’s bike greenway infrastructure to allow bikers to continuously go along the East River. This led to questions about how New Yorker’s move through City, and if this proposal could open-up ideas to enhance not only the City’s alternative transport, but offer an entire paradigm shift on how New Yorker’s view the East River
12 votes
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‘Bangkok Bicycle City’ is a urban planning project examining the links between the unconnected transportation systems. This project decoded each layers of the transportation systems whether canal boats, river ferries, railways, buses, taxies and Bangkok’s unique motorcycle taxies. And layering them back to see if the bike lanes can become the connectors between all those disconnected systems.
57 votes
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The theme of the architectural building is a self-sufficient Bike Base as a sustainable building consisting of three shipping container modular units.
The humble container is one of the world’s most recongized and standardised objects. It is a unit in global exchange. It is higly re-useable, transportable, self sufficient and low-cost.
9 votes
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A strategy to introduce cycling-based public space (though not exclusive to cyclists) into the city’s unused pockets via D.I.Y. ("do-it-yourself"), informal urban experiments.
95 votes
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As the French speaking partner of the European project ISEMOA, Mobiped believes that accessibility is a relevant tool to improve cycling environments.
Mobiped has been created by Benoit Beroud, BYPAD and ISEMOA auditor. He has published on public bicycles, actives modes and modal choice.
100 votes
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This is a design of bicycle station that is designed as a multi-purpose facility on two levels.
44 votes
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Using Wellington City, New Zealand as a design case study, the Bike Your City project focused on the planning and designing components of cycling infrastructure from an architectural perspective. It aimed to gain a better understanding for what cycling facilities to design and how to design them in order to improve usability and legibility of the transport system in the urban environment.
561 votes
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The number of cyclists in urban areas is growing, the need for cyclist-friendly stops and small repair stations grows along with it. The function of cyclist-friendly stop may not be limited only to small repairs but can also play vital role as socializing and information point as well as knowledge and experience sharing base.
15 votes
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THE BOMBAY GREENWAY PROJECT:
Turning the railways into greenways...
The Railway in Bombay defines the linear city & dictates how 7 million people travel daily!
The Railway into Greenway proposal envisions a 21st century greenway over the existing railway lines; 166kms of continuous, flat, traffic & stress free space to encourage active modes of transportation & healthy city living!
811 votes
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The bike is growing as an important mean of transportation all over Europe. Being environmental friendly is hip! Part of the young, coffee drinking, healthy, fresh, self-made generation is identity. This identity can be provided by the bike, as a tremendous variety of bikes is available. Above all, this is the message this acupuncture urban intervention conveys
Bikes are beautiful! Join and ride!
8 votes
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self-sufficient Bike Base designed as a sustainable building for Europe!
108 votes
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I am a professor of architecture and urban design, and author of the first book to examine the ramifications of bike transport for built environment theories. It was published and released in the Netherlands by that country’s leading architectural press in Oct 2012, and comes out in the US in Feb 2013. This award would help me raise awareness of cycling among architects and urban designers.
102 votes
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BikeBase is the project about connection, integration and sustainability. It attempts to connect the cyclists with the natural surroundings of the city. On the other hand it is the project of integration with the given site and possible future city locations. It is derived from the thought that sustainability connects the nature and humans in the harmony.
1 votes
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A cafe/bike workshop/meeting place for cyclists next to one of the main bicycle paths in Ljubljana. Variable structure offering different configurations for every event related to the bike culture.
1 votes
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Most transportation bicycles on streets simply caused the present failure of integration between bicycles and public transit. They had effectively reduced efforts of all cities to promote cycling as the major transportation mode. We need innovative design of bicycles and new storage methods to handle huge numbers of bicycles in cities. A real GREEN TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM is proposed.
1 votes
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Built of reused shipping containers, the cycle service station offers a practical and ecological solution for cyclists looking to stop and rest, charge items/batteries or fix their bikes en route. It is fully transportable,logically constructed and could be integrated into any city.
9 votes
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Cities across the world are implementing public bikeshare systems as clean, efficient, inexpensive forms of transit. But studies show that features of current bikeshare systems limit their use to certain segments of the urban population. The proposed Fourth-generation Bikeshare System incorporates new elements into existing bikeshares to promote social equity and community connectedness.
108 votes
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It is an entertaining hub for cyclists, a node of various networks of bikeways in the area. It is a spiral system of semi-enclosed bikeways that shelters cyclists while bringing fun to the experience. It contains repair shops, cycling café, convenience stores, and an outdoor cinema. Cyclists and pedestrians follow different paths so cyclists can enjoy cycling without unnecessary constraints.
238 votes
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CycleCenter for Urban Planning and Design.
A place to rest and recover, to socially gather, to share information on the ride, health and fitness, purchase or rent parts, and a place for entertainment.
27 votes
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Smarthangars are a compact communal bike storage solution that can be installed in any existing car parking space, providing those living or working locally places to securely store their bicycles.
Operated by secure smart card system, the design allows spaces to be rented out for long term or short term use, creating a sustainable economic model for bike storage in the city.
54 votes
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A project from KGP design studio:
Meshroom turns the concept of prison-esque bike security solutions on its head (pun intended) and offers a highly effective, affordable means of securing bikes in a range of conditions. With the structural efficiency and flexibility of a tent and openness and resilience of a metal mesh fabric, the Meshroom offers a simple solution to a complex range of issues.
238 votes
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Kofta Bike Base is a place where cyclists can cycle-through the entrance to grab a quick snack, stop for a break at the main cafe, repair their bikes and use the free wireless facilities. Consisted of three modular shipping containers, Bike Base can be placed anywhere near cycling paths, parks, or even busy motorways where cyclists need a break from the traffic.
130 votes
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Thesis: The identity and image of a city are influenced significantly by their urban spaces.
Task: The development of a sustainable design of an urban open space in the city of Kiel, Germany.
27 votes
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Creating an underground area for recreational activities such as bicycle, skateboard, running and jogging. The area serves as an underground path between streets. Its build from three lanes which constructed according to the relevant activity and the surface which create a space that enables different difficult levels of riding and running. The lanes cross and split, going up to the surface and then down and by that creating surface changes.
37 votes
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Velotel is a motel chain for bicyclists riding on the Donauradweg, which is a main cycling route in Europe. Although there are a couple of lodgings, camping places and guest houses along the cycle path, there is a lack of possibilities for young cyclists to put up in a modern and more appropriate accommodation. Velotel offers comfortable and affordable quarters for nature-lovers with a view over the Donau by day and the starry sky by night. The bike maintains present all along the cycling tour, even at night.
51 votes
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Architecture on Bicycle Parking is an ongoing study project on urban solutions to encourage the use of bicycles. It issues several studies,one of those resulting in a building. In our studies, bicycle parking facilities are combined with a broad scope of urban program and are integrated in the city context. A well defined strategy resulting in different design proposals and typologies.
26 votes
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Compact, functional, easy to build and modify are the best words to describe the Bike Cube concept. Bike Cube is a meeting place for cyclists which provides not only THE parking space for bicycles but HAS other functions AS WELL: IT’S A place for repairing and maintaining bicycles, IT HAS A café, fast food STAND/RESTAURANT, wi-fi hotspot, place for rest, etc. THE Bike Cube is a concept of A self-
41 votes
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To create a bike base was the title of the project where I have submitted my one. The construction had to include maximum 3 containers with service, refreshment place and rack part. A quite sustainable building was the main aspect of the planning, wherein sewage system, heating-cooling and electricity solutions had to be involved in.
1 votes
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The S.W.O.P. bicycle box was invented for the safekeeping of bicycles & E-bikes. The boxes protect bicycles from weathering, vandalism and theft. Its outer walls can be used as an advertising or artistic space. Due to a unique and space-saving design, S.W.O.P. boxes integrate perfectly into a cities landscape. Increased sense of security leads to more bike usage and the use of high-quality bikes.
394 votes
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We believe that sheltering and recharging our bicycle, is more than just putting it inside a
box covered with photovoltaic panels. Managing space and function in a efficient manner
is key to succeed in the private housing sector, and that is why we decided to minimize the
space occupied by the parked bicycle, along with the inclusion of the place to sit and soft
lighting solution.
14 votes
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There is often not enough space in town, so people with different interests have to share the same place which sometimes leads to problems. The project “Fair Use Dialog” aims to initiate a fair use dialog between pedestrians and cyclists. Suggestions for improvements, awareness and behaviour have been collected locally in order to improve the coexistence of cyclists and pedestrians.
15 votes
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Velo-city is a highway for bicycles, a network of elevated bikeways that connect distant parts of our cities. It is a system of enclosed bikeways that shelter cyclists while making it easier to ride. The twinned bikeways are separated by direction of travel eliminating wind resistance and increasing the efficiency of cycling allowing for travel times that match any form of rapid transit.
18 votes
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Self-sufficient Bike Base was designed for the purpose of Trimo Urban Crash competition 2013. The given location was in Ljubljana on one of the pedestrian/cycling paths, on the border of the city centre. Bike base, made out of three shipping containers, contains coffee shop, lounge area, self-service bicycle repair station and electric bike charging station. The main concept was drive through, which allows pedestrians and cyclists to run their errands in an easy way.
39 votes
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The pixel is a multifunctional Cafe and Bike storage repair stop, designed on an orthogonal grid, with entirely adaptable elements including optional layouts and furniture arrangements. The Pixel like its name sake is in an adaptable social environment designed to to create a new and flexible social public space.
2 votes
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We are happy to announce that 60 Cycling Visionaries in total will be chosen. As announced, 30 prizes are given as “Voting Prizes”, and a further 30 “Vienna Jury Prizes” were added because of the massive response to the Cycling Visionaries Awards program.
