Our Fathers Walked On Water
A landscape precedent for a curving pedestrian boardwalk featuring a striking red deck and rhythmically spaced support fins over water.
- What we like about this project
- The pale radiating underside fins step rhythmically out over the water like ribs of a floating hull.
Materials
- painted-wood
- painted-steel
- concrete
Visual identifiers
- red-boardwalk
- curved-pathway
- structural-fins
- waterfront
Style tags
- contemporary
- sculptural
- infrastructure
- expressive
Visual tags
- public-realm
- pedestrian-bridge
- landscape-infrastructure
- curvilinear
- waterfront-walkway
- Geometry
- An S-curve winding boardwalk structure supported by a stepped sequence of radiating structural fins over a shoreline.
- Structural guess
- Cantilevered structural steel or precast fins supporting a timber or composite deck.
- Spatial scale
- Pedestrian pathway scale, approximately three to four meters wide.
- Lighting
- Diffused overcast daylight casting soft shadows and gentle specular reflections on the water surface.
- Atmosphere
- Serene and visually kinetic, defined by the vibrant contrast between the red deck and natural waterfront tones.
- Environmental context
- Waterfront park setting with a grassy bank, reedy shoreline, and calm water.
- Spatial experience
- Moving along the undulating pathway offers changing perspectives over water and planted banks.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating white underside fins create a strong diagonal step sequence mirroring the sweeping curve of the red deck.
- Style reading
- Contemporary sculptural landscape infrastructure
- Program
- Public waterfront pedestrian bridge and boardwalk
- Perspective
- Aerial/Site
- Discipline
- landscape
- Materials
- painted-wood, painted-steel, concrete
- Visual identifiers
- red-boardwalk, curved-pathway, structural-fins, waterfront
- Style tags
- contemporary, sculptural, infrastructure, expressive
- Visual tags
- public-realm, pedestrian-bridge, landscape-infrastructure, curvilinear, waterfront-walkway
- Geometry
- An S-curve winding boardwalk structure supported by a stepped sequence of radiating structural fins over a shoreline.
- Structural guess
- Cantilevered structural steel or precast fins supporting a timber or composite deck.
- Spatial scale
- Pedestrian pathway scale, approximately three to four meters wide.
- Lighting
- Diffused overcast daylight casting soft shadows and gentle specular reflections on the water surface.
- Atmosphere
- Serene and visually kinetic, defined by the vibrant contrast between the red deck and natural waterfront tones.
- Environmental context
- Waterfront park setting with a grassy bank, reedy shoreline, and calm water.
- Spatial experience
- Moving along the undulating pathway offers changing perspectives over water and planted banks.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating white underside fins create a strong diagonal step sequence mirroring the sweeping curve of the red deck.
- Style reading
- Contemporary sculptural landscape infrastructure
- Program
- Public waterfront pedestrian bridge and boardwalk
- Perspective
- Aerial/Site
- Discipline
- landscape