Later this year in Southern China, you will be able to sit down for a bite to eat and then work it all off using the bike track located on the roof of the cafe.

Housing Corp VANKE has approached NL architects, a design firm located in the epicentre of all things bikes, to create exactly that; a cafe that accommodates bike rentals.  It will be housed in the huge resort currently being constructed in Hainan.

Titled Bicycle Club, the cafe/velodrome mash-up will be,

supported by a structural system anchored below the central staircase that provides access to the track above. A curtain wall of glass hangs down from the cantilevered edges of the velodrome itself, which shade the cafe and bike rental operation inside. 

Head on over to fastcodesign.com for the full story. 

Images sourced from the nl architects site 

 

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