Sublimation (Footbridge Transition)

Essay, expanding design practices, Guillem Collell Mundet, No Density, Territory and mobility

Accessibility, Aesthetics, Beauty, Bridge, Built environment, Cultural agitator, Design, Essay, Inclusive city, Inclusivity, Infrastructure, Interaction, New technologies, Pedestrian realm, Sensing, Transition, Urban planning

This essay is a version of a post previously published at dobooku.com.
References

[1] COLLELL, G. «Sublimation (footbridge transition)» edited by Footbridge 2017 Berlin – Tell a Story, V International Footbridge Conference, 2017.

[2] COLLELL, G. «Sublimación o disolución visual en el diseño de pasarelas» edited by Dobooku, 2017.

[3] DOWNEY, C. «Architecture for the Blind» MendeDesign, 2015. www.arch4blind.com

[4] AA.VV., «Structures and Architecture: Beyond their Limits» edited by Paulo J.S. Cruz. Taylor & Francis Group, 6000 Broken Sound Parkway NW, Suite 300, Boca Raton, FL 33487-2742 CRC Press 2016.



Link references

[a] http://resoundings.org/Pages/Harmonic_Bridge1.htm

[b] https://www.exploratorium.edu/exhibits/fog-bridge-72494

[c] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fog_Bridge_at_the_Exploratorium.jpeg

[d] https://blind.wiki

For some time now, footbridges have been a contemporary design phenomenon due to both the unimaginable proposals born from a structural expressionist approach and the radical slenderness of some footbridges constructed through exquisite structural analysis. But what comes after visual and structural languages? And what lies beyond slenderness?