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A landscape and infrastructure precedent by Tonkin Liu, featuring a lightweight red shell-lattice bridge that spans a highway while carrying a continuous planted pedestrian path.
- What we like about this project
- The structural lattice resembles fish scales or hanging shell geometries underneath the bridge deck.
Materials
- steel
- native-planting
- timber
Visual identifiers
- shell-lattice
- eco-bridge
- red-structure
- planted-walkway
Style tags
- biomimetic
- ecological
- sculptural
- contemporary
Visual tags
- infrastructure
- eco-bridge
- landscape-integration
- biomimetic
- public-realm
- Geometry
- A long-span bridge arcs across a multi-lane highway, supporting an undulating green roof and planted walkway on top.
- Structural guess
- Shell-lattice composite steel structure acting as a deep truss or arch system.
- Spatial scale
- Macro-scale infrastructure bridge towering over cars and buses on a multi-lane highway.
- Lighting
- Soft, overcast daylighting from an open sky with gentle highlights on the red lattice structure.
- Atmosphere
- A striking contrast between the frantic motion of highway traffic and the calm, living nature overhead.
- Environmental context
- Spans across a dense multi-lane highway surrounded by lush hillside slopes and trees.
- Spatial experience
- The expansive bridge creates a monumental gateway over the rushing highway, contrasting heavy infrastructure with a light, organic canopy.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating curved catenary loops form a suspended structural valance beneath the deck.
- Style reading
- Biomimetic ecological infrastructure
- Program
- Wildlife and pedestrian eco-bridge over highway
- Perspective
- Aerial/Site
- Discipline
- landscape
- Materials
- steel, native-planting, timber
- Visual identifiers
- shell-lattice, eco-bridge, red-structure, planted-walkway
- Style tags
- biomimetic, ecological, sculptural, contemporary
- Visual tags
- infrastructure, eco-bridge, landscape-integration, biomimetic, public-realm
- Geometry
- A long-span bridge arcs across a multi-lane highway, supporting an undulating green roof and planted walkway on top.
- Structural guess
- Shell-lattice composite steel structure acting as a deep truss or arch system.
- Spatial scale
- Macro-scale infrastructure bridge towering over cars and buses on a multi-lane highway.
- Lighting
- Soft, overcast daylighting from an open sky with gentle highlights on the red lattice structure.
- Atmosphere
- A striking contrast between the frantic motion of highway traffic and the calm, living nature overhead.
- Environmental context
- Spans across a dense multi-lane highway surrounded by lush hillside slopes and trees.
- Spatial experience
- The expansive bridge creates a monumental gateway over the rushing highway, contrasting heavy infrastructure with a light, organic canopy.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating curved catenary loops form a suspended structural valance beneath the deck.
- Style reading
- Biomimetic ecological infrastructure
- Program
- Wildlife and pedestrian eco-bridge over highway
- Perspective
- Aerial/Site
- Discipline
- landscape