Pedro and Inês Bridge in Coimbra, Portugal, is an innovative new pedestrian footbridge designed by Arup's Cecil Balmond and the Advanced Geometry Unit (AGU). But instead of following a strictly math or eng. process, Cecil Balmond started from his poetic notes (for me beautiful lines...)
For example:
"The journey across water,
a ravine, a gap between two land forms,
in always envisioned
as a straight line crossing."
or
"That is the way of the bridge,
the incessant crossing."
I found all these notes and the skecthes in last number of Casabella (757). I typed some of these handwritten notes in my last post. If u r interested we can discuss about it
(http://iaakuza.blogspot.com/)
cecil balmond and his "poetic" bridge
Pedro and Inês Bridge in Coimbra, Portugal, is an innovative new pedestrian footbridge designed by Arup's Cecil Balmond and the Advanced Geometry Unit (AGU). But instead of following a strictly math or eng. process, Cecil Balmond started from his poetic notes (for me beautiful lines...)
For example:
"The journey across water,
a ravine, a gap between two land forms,
in always envisioned
as a straight line crossing."
or
"That is the way of the bridge,
the incessant crossing."
I found all these notes and the skecthes in last number of Casabella (757). I typed some of these handwritten notes in my last post. If u r interested we can discuss about it
(http://iaakuza.blogspot.com/)
I don't think it is as great as Cecil obviously does.
Previously.
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