The pedestrian bridge of Tan Jiawan agricultural site park in Wuzhen was designed at the same time as the Rice Field Bookstore, not far away. Wuzhen is located in the south of the Yangtze River, the water network, Tan Jiawan site of a water system also winding, planning streamline and water network intersection, thus creating the need for the bridge. But we must follow the principle that buildings or structures can not be built in the site protection core area, so after constant adjustment, the site of the bridge was finally located close to the core of the outer edge.
▼ 橋面俯視圖
Site plan of the bridge ?楊建剛
這座橋可簡單可復雜。在設計之初，我們把目光投向了烏鎮(zhèn)以及設計場地。
This bridge’s design can be very simple, or very complicated. At the beginning , we aimed at Wuzhen and the design site.
Wuzhen has a lot of bridges and verandas, but the most interesting one is the Fengyuan double bridge, which is located at the end of the east gate scenic area in Wuzhen. It is composed of two parallel bridges which are arranged next to each other and are unified under the double pitched roof at the top. There is a wooden screen between the two bridges, where people can sense each other, but it’s hazy, like 《The Flowing Time》 between Huang Lei and René Liu in time flies -- meeting and missing.
▼晨曦下的橋體入口
The entrance to the bridge in the morning sun ?楊建剛
The bridge is not only a place for people to move about, but also a necessary place for streamline. It’s interesting to have a place where people meet in different ways, and then something happens. So we splited a bridge into two, so that its dislocation, the formation of a turning point, to slow down the flow of people here, change direction, meet, stay.
The entire Tan Jiawan site is relatively flat and dominated by paddy fields. We want people to walk from the flat and open paddy fields, walk through the trees, climb to the heights and look down the open water outlet to see the paddy fields in the distance. However, due to the requirements of the park, there is no place for visitors to rest and take shelter from the rain. Therefore, a bridge pavilion is built at the junction of the two bridges, which is not only a symbol of the distant view, but also a gathering point for positioning in the vast rice fields. The structure continues the sense of separation between the two bridges -- a vertical structure is raised at the intersection of the two bridges, and the material is divided into a row of steel columns and a concrete wall, with a steel and concrete beam cantilevered opposite each other at the top, the bridge is eventually unified under a sloping roof: the two bridges entwined with each other.
Inspired by the curving shape of mature rice ears, the bridge’s railings are composed of vertical steel bars, with the top bent and hanging, and the ends connected by long tubular handrails.
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