“A Bridge is more imaginative, ingenious, artificial, and abstract a construction than others, which is why it frequently appears picturesque and occasionally even surreal. A bridge generates conceptual and aesthetic effects beyond its practical ones. It gives visible form to the idea of union, highlighting a human supplementation of nature…A bridge calls to mind the fabricational work of humans.” [Thomas Harrison, Of Bridges: A Poetic and Philosophical Account]

The work is interested in how the unique demands of bridge tectonics are in communication with ground but also in how the bridge condition also challenges a gap in our mind: a space of transfer physically and psychologically. These conditions are examined through the careful design of occupied bridges, situated in a Waverley Gardens reimagined as a wetland and spanning between the territories of the Old and New Towns.

Image credit: Leyang Ding