Our studio review today went well, our most negative comment was that Mallory and I had come up with too much. It is always easier to take away design elements than to come up with more additions. The design that I came up with for the bridge was centered on the idea of being “invisible”; going back to the very beginning of the project our purpose is to create a “surgical intervention”. Mallory and I both agreed that our intervention should be natural and seamless; the challenge with that, however, is trying to compose a design that fits in as well as creates a new monument that invites people to the area. The idea of the bridge spawned from the concept that we wanted to take the pedestrian congregation on one side of our site and extend it to the other side…while doing this we did not want to disrupt the existing traffic patterns, thus the “pedestrian bridge” was born.
In order to try and make the bridge seem invisible I used glass as my primary material; I utilized a building technique known as structural glazing, or curtain wall. Structural glazing employs a steel or other lighter metal frame that connects glass panes together in order to form a very stable and strong structural system. This method allows glass to become a primary structural support within buildings and walls, usually glass is only used for facades and ornamentation.
So this weekend Mallory and I have to take away some of the “monumental” aspects of the bridge, one option that we are seriously considering is making smaller separate bridges. Jordi did like the design but he just wants us to “scale” it down a tad.
Here are some renderings of the bridge design I had prepared for today….
On the deck
under the deck
A pirate with no boots? Then the feet should be bare and crusty!
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