The Bicycle Fence by NEXT Architects
NEXT Architects
The Bicycle Fence, 2001
Transforming your backyard boundary into a pedal-powered invitation, the Bicycle Fence encourages you and your neighbour to hop on and ride around the block. Built into a classic fence silhouette, this clever piece blurs the line between divide and ride. Because sometimes a fence isn’t just about separation: it’s about two wheels, one path, and the chance to go together.
Me, Myself & You explored the delicate, intimate, and often unpredictable ways design shapes our social world. Fences that invite neighbours to play and benches that determine how close we sit — each object examines the fine balance between connection and distance. With human relationships at its core, the project invited us to smile, hesitate, and perhaps take a seat where we normally wouldn’t.
More than an exploration of materials or form, it focused on behaviour, identity, and the subtle spaces between people in the 21st century. First presented in Milan in 2001 and later in Utrecht, the exhibition transformed everyday encounters into playful experiments in social design.
