Infrastructure zine final project created for Infrastructure Studies course taught by Debbie Chachra about the importance of maintaining infrastructure in the United States, and more specifically with regards to the diesel booster at Olin.
This final project of building a bicycle as an art piece is significant because it describes my passions. As an engineer I value hugely the simple engineering elegance of a bicycle. It’s simple and it’s efficient. I believe it can be argued to be a “perfectly” engineered object: a barebones engineering solution maximizing efficiency. I believe that the form of the bicycle can be made to be as elegant as the engineering of it: I believe that I will be making a functional art piece that illustrates the intersection of art and engineering through the simple elegance of the bicycle.