Terni, a post-WW2 reconstruction city in central Italy, was rebuilt entirely for the automobile. No bicycle infrastructure exists, except for one bridge crossing the Velino River, where the Romans engineered Europe’s first artificial waterfall. This same cascade, still powering a hydroelectric station, made Terni a strategic bombing target: the Allies leveled the city in 1944, necessitating its complete reconstruction.
On this single bicycle passage, Refunc activated dormant bridge space using locally harvested materials: two discarded bicycles and IBC tanks. The result: two mobile cargo bikes that function as meeting points’ bar-bridge-bike, or simply: Brike. The IBC containers retain their industrial cage structure while adapting to new social function. Mounted on salvaged bicycle frames, they become mobile bars that encounter each other mid-bridge, creating a temporary public space where none existed.
