Design // Becker Contest

This project was realized for the 2011 Becker Contest. The German Becker Company, specialized in moulded wood, launched an international competition for the development of innovative projects based on this material.



My project was the creation of a moulded wood frame for bike:

"The Wood Bike is a molded wood frame bike, for urban context. The choice of this material to make a frame bike allows a very light and flexible piece. The thickness of the shape (4,5 cm) gives an excellent resistance to the structure, but leaves the frame act like a damper. The variation of motion of the saddle is about 3 centimeters which gives a good comfort of use. In the mechanical critical areas, some reinforcement parts have been designed, generally in carbon fibers, to relieve the wood structure and avoid an overload breaking. [...]" 

(extract of the final report)

The final pictures have been realized on 3Ds Max, with Vray render, but a mechanical study was also performed on Solidworks (final picture) to validate the design of the frame parts.