Tucson Bike Church

Bike Church is a walk-in metal sculpture made from bike parts that is large enough to be seen from surrounding streets and the neighborhood. Hundreds of bike frames, wheels, and rims are welded to the frame and fill the empty space between the steel beams and provide additional support. Instead of filling walls with jumbled bike parts, the bike parts are arranged into symmetrical geometric forms, alluding to the symmetry inherent to religious buildings. All bike components are sandblasted and painted pure white. The roof, made predominantly of partially filled-in rims, provides shade within the sculpture. Stained glass windows made of metal and colored acrylic cast colors onto the white structure during the day. At night, solar lights within the building light the area and cast color onto the ground. Chimes made from bike parts hang within Bike Church, like organ pipes in a church. A shrine area serves as a memorial for fallen local cyclists. The shrine allows visitors to contribute to the sculpture, as they can place pictures or other mementos at the memorial.

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• Bike
• bicycle
• shrine
• solar
• solar power
• Creative Machines
• church
• public art
• sculpture
• art

[loopanalysis]

I am extremely proud of serena for making this. just 1 of a million things she'll be doing. Good cause.

[SQUIGGELSONER]

Yeah! Awesome!! Thanks Bike Church.