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One Bike is Enough
2024

    In collaboration with the massive French sports retailer: Decathlon, second-year Master Product Design students present a collection of futuristic (yet producible) E-Bike frame concepts. 

    The projects were developed for their ROCKRIDER Touring division, with special emphasis on the company’s latest research on sustainability and eco-design.

    Referencing Aalto’s vision (“One chair is enough”), this bicycle frame is designed from the bottom bracket outward to be upgraded or repaired multiple times. A universal center unit was developed to carry the motor and simultaneously act as a connector for the remaining parts of the bicycle. 
    The design aims to make the production of different sizes and potentially different frame typologies more efficient. The logic revolves around making the center core adaptable for assembling extrusions that act as the tubular parts of a traditional frame. These extrusions also have a milled cutout that allows the mounting of various accessories such as bags, cages, and different battery sizes.

    By exposing every single component, we also seek a better understanding of the technology. One major identified problem with e-bikes is that they have generally become complex black boxes, far removed from the original modularity and repairability principles that mechanical bikes offer.

    Made in ECAL under the guidance of Camille Blin.

    In collaboration with: Meri Hozumi





    Eduardo Altamirano (MX, 1992) is an independent designer who graduated from Écal Master in Product Design. Since 2017 he has been actively working in the three-dimensional world under the pseudonym of en la superficie. 

    For press, inquiries and commissions, please get in touch with me at: hola@enlasuperficie.com

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    His practice constantly strives to combine hyper-local landscapes with the use of advanced manufacturing techniques to produce various material experiments, which often lead to industrial design pieces, limited editions, and self-initiated projects.

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    Currently based in Lausanne, Switzerland