Hi. Sorry I've been a stranger on this list as of late. But Here at Recycle-a-Bike in Providence, RI, we're working on a design of a new home for our program. I've teamed with an interior architecture grad student and an architecture grad student at a local design school who are awesome and excited about the project. We have a small plot of land set aside for it, and we will be designing and building our new home from the ground up.
So we are starting our research, and I'm putting the question out to the list - Do folks have design examples of their shops to share? or insights as to what works and what doesn't in the usage of your shops? Any other thoughts about design / construction?
I've taken a look at Austin Yellow Bike's new spacehttp://www.austinyellowbike.org/webberville_shop_images.htmon their website and the "shop organizationhttp://www.bikecollectives.org/wiki/index.php?title=Shop_Organization" page on the Bike Collective Wiki, both of which were helpful, but what would be useful for us at this point is more thinking on the whole building scale. If people have info to contribute, I'd suggest putting it on said shop organizationhttp://www.bikecollectives.org/wiki/index.php?title=Shop_Organization page on the Bike Collective Wiki so that it's there for everyone to refer to.
I'll be posting progress on our blog as we go (nothing up there yet).
Thanks!
Mike Eng www.recycleabike.org www.octopusroad.com