Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Botanic Bridge

A new 2001 project by West 8 in Gwangju, South Korea, illuminates both their interesting graphical style and experimental nature. This one has made the rounds, including Urbanarbolismo, Pruned, and Treehugger - and well deserved - as this one is pretty awesome, and actually pretty interesting to see something from West 8 including some vegetation, however poetic.






:: images via West 8

Via West 8: "West 8 was commissioned to do a study for transforming the 10.8 km disused railway line surrounding the city-heart of Gwangju into a usable green corridor. West 8 conceived a green serpent that could connect over 20 public schools. To cross the Gwangju stream, West 8 proposed a landmark, a botanic bridge, celebrating the Korean botanics, as a permanent landmark in the city. The parabolic 35m high botanic bridge contains 24 concrete tree-pots, 4m in diameter, the largest being 7m high. This footbridge has no explicit circulation target. People can, but are not forced to climb the bridge, but the brave and adventures will."



:: images via West 8
Posted by Jason King at 10:10 PM
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4 comments:

  2. Not a new project fyi.
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  3. thanks for the heads up... it's a 2001 project, as reflected in the correction. Guess people are just re-excited by inventive bridges once again, and this one came back.
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  4. love it! fun to see you also noticed the lack of vegetation used by west 8 in most of their designs :D
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