HumanCentric (www.humancentric.com), an chip artefact architecture and development company, was accustomed in the CityRacks Design Competition as one of the judges’ admired submissions. Held in New York City, this account was accustomed to beneath than four percent of entries. The challenge was allotment of an accomplishment to advance greener busline modes a allotment of New Yorkers.
HumanCentric’s multidisciplinary aggregation included automated and clear designers; architecture engineers; and animal factors practitioners, all committed to adorning bike usage. The aggregation has amorphous analytic at means to advantage their plan for the Cycle Spot architecture in the Triangle.
“We are aflame about the achievability of seeing the architecture on our bounded streets,” said Alex Hussain, architecture architect at HumanCentric. “The CityRacks antagonism has accustomed our aggregation the befalling to advance the architecture with aspirations of one day seeing it in the Raleigh-Durham community.”
With an accent on usability, affluence of accomplishment and aesthetic aesthetics, the aggregation advised a bike arbor that focused on the basal charge to defended and balance the bike anatomy from assorted points. Branded as the Cycle Spot, the architecture included a plan for color-coded signage based on adjacency area of the rack, as able-bodied as iconic instructions for locking a bike properly. The aggregation aswell explored abstracts and finishes that were environmentally friendly, such as stainless steel, a 100 percent recyclable material.
About HumanCentric:
HumanCentric is an chip architecture and development aggregation with a foundation based on the charge to accomplish convenient articles by belief and compassionate the end user. HumanCentric leverages Human Factors, Design Research, Industrial Design, Graphic and Interaction Design and Design Engineering to abridge and enhance user experiences. At HumanCentric, the ambition is to accept how users collaborate with a artefact or arrangement and construe that compassionate into a acute solution-blending anatomy with function, account with usability, assurance with satisfaction. HumanCentric is headquartered in Cary, North Carolina with a bounded appointment in Chicago. Visit www.humancentric.com.
About the CityRacks Design Competition:
The CityRacks Design Competition, allotment of New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s PlaNYC, hopes to advance greener modes of busline and animate added New Yorkers to activate two-wheel commuting about their city. The antagonism was sponsored by the New York Department of Transportation and the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. Patricia E. Harris (First Deputy Mayor of New York City), Ellen Lupton (Curator of Contemporary Design at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum), David Byrne (Musician/Artist/Cyclist) and Steve Madden (Editor-in-Chief of Bicycling Magazine) were a allotment of the board for the competition. Entries can be beheld at http://nycityracks.wordpress.com
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