Fresno City Bike Path

The Intelligent Interior Design Visualization Lab, in collaboration with the Fresno State Transportation Institute, proposes to complete the design development of nine bike shelters at trailheads for the Fresno City Bike Campus Project. To enhance the public experience, the Visualization Lab will create a heat island toolkit to analyze multiple design strategies that mitigate extreme temperatures on outdoor surfaces. The bike shelters will act as backdrops to the Scribbles Bike Sculptures while complementing the local district's architectural aesthetics. Each design outcome offers shade, charging stations, water access, and bike repair facilities. The heat island toolkit will analyze and attempt to reduce extreme temperatures on the pathways and at the trailheads of the Fresno City Bike Campus. After developing the toolkit, the Lab will engage local districts in a democratized design process to gather local design preferences for community placemaking. After determining the preferred toolkit for each district, we will 3D print modular prototypes of both the toolkits and the bike shelters.