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ABRIDGED Project Heracles - A Link Between Africa and Europe for Domus MagazineCould a bridge that denies the physical link between two continents actually bring them closer together?
If the construction of a bridge connecting Africa to Europe is thought of as politically unfeasible, economically unattainable or simply deemed a utopian impossibility, let us consider an alternative.
Spanning across the straight, a floating bridge would extend out into the sea, as the structure reaches its midway point, it briefly dips down into the water resurfacing in 50 meters to resume its path onto the other shore and leaving behind a short waterway between the two ends.
The the physical divide between two continents would be preserved, yet the symbolic power embodied in this gap would be intensified while at once physically undermined. Would Europe and Africa then inexorably gravitate to each other like two magnets brought too close to one another, unable to escape each others pull? Perhaps by reducing the herculean divide between two cultures to the human scale, a distance easily crossed by a short swim from either side, we could then make what now appears fantastical seem as something merely possible.
If the construction of a bridge connecting Africa to Europe is thought of as politically unfeasible, economically unattainable or simply deemed a utopian impossibility, let us consider an alternative.
Spanning across the straight, a floating bridge would extend out into the sea, as the structure reaches its midway point, it briefly dips down into the water resurfacing in 50 meters to resume its path onto the other shore and leaving behind a short waterway between the two ends.
The the physical divide between two continents would be preserved, yet the symbolic power embodied in this gap would be intensified while at once physically undermined. Would Europe and Africa then inexorably gravitate to each other like two magnets brought too close to one another, unable to escape each others pull? Perhaps by reducing the herculean divide between two cultures to the human scale, a distance easily crossed by a short swim from either side, we could then make what now appears fantastical seem as something merely possible.
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