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Designing a bridge between the Crescent and the Meadows is not only a circulation issue, but it is about linking the city with the nature. For this reason, the NOME bridge aims to be more than an infrastructure: designed as a public space, it will be a new resource for the local community and a destination in itself.
The bridge is conceived as a passage from the city to the nature through a sequence of spaces: along the way the deck widens to create three seating areas.
The first, on the Crescent, invites passer-by to stop, enjoy panoramic view of the Meadows
and, eventually, to enter the bridge. The second is a piazza floating on the water, a place to inhabit and linger between urban and natural. The latter serves as a foyer to the site, where pedestrians and cyclists could stop and get prepared to start their trip into the Meadows.
The path on the bridge curves around the three piazzas, that are paved with a coloured pattern to highlight the public spaces and to bring colour and sparkle to the riverside. The chosen colours are 5 different varieties of blue, that recalls the water of the river.
The structure of the bridge is designed like a chest. The continuous spanning structure consists of two 800 mm x 400 mm box beams. Twinned steel fins cantilever off the main spanning beams, connected by pipe profiles. Rib-like balustrade posts are directly linked to the fins and are curved to reduce climbability. The deck is wide 3 up to 8.40 meters and it consists of a concrete slab. The deck structure is anchored by two V-shaped supports, built off the river banks.
Earth mounding is provided on the Meadows site to ensure that the gradient of the bridge is 1 in 20 as required by DDA: the land raising will provide a natural auditorium and a landscaped access to the site. From the landing point of the bridge, twinned ramped routes slope to join the existing routes around the perimeter of the Meadows site.
The bridge is conceived as a passage from the city to the nature through a sequence of spaces: along the way the deck widens to create three seating areas.
The first, on the Crescent, invites passer-by to stop, enjoy panoramic view of the Meadows
and, eventually, to enter the bridge. The second is a piazza floating on the water, a place to inhabit and linger between urban and natural. The latter serves as a foyer to the site, where pedestrians and cyclists could stop and get prepared to start their trip into the Meadows.
The path on the bridge curves around the three piazzas, that are paved with a coloured pattern to highlight the public spaces and to bring colour and sparkle to the riverside. The chosen colours are 5 different varieties of blue, that recalls the water of the river.
The structure of the bridge is designed like a chest. The continuous spanning structure consists of two 800 mm x 400 mm box beams. Twinned steel fins cantilever off the main spanning beams, connected by pipe profiles. Rib-like balustrade posts are directly linked to the fins and are curved to reduce climbability. The deck is wide 3 up to 8.40 meters and it consists of a concrete slab. The deck structure is anchored by two V-shaped supports, built off the river banks.
Earth mounding is provided on the Meadows site to ensure that the gradient of the bridge is 1 in 20 as required by DDA: the land raising will provide a natural auditorium and a landscaped access to the site. From the landing point of the bridge, twinned ramped routes slope to join the existing routes around the perimeter of the Meadows site.
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