Looking back at Brief

I need to look back at the brief as I have got carried away with this idea of the bridge connecting the two sides of the River, but the design needs to be floating.

The design

- needs to be floating

- 200-300 audience                                           - How is my design meeting 

- capable of being moved                                     these requirements, I need 

- facilities for the audience                                   go back and look at how do

                                                                         do I make a bridge that is 

                                                                         floating? does it still allow 

                                                                         for the River to be used for

                                                                         boats and other uses?

Water

Brain Storm:

Research:

Precedent:

Mihail Yastrebov

   Floating platforms- The public space on the water

They proposed to build four floating platforms, which will place between banks of the canal. It will be mobile and be able to move from left bank to the right and back. They offered to locate the public space for relation of urban community on these platforms.  

This design concept relates closely to the what I am trying to do to create a public space where water is the main feature. This precedent uses the idea of water but not that it is a bridge I like this idea but does my design have to be a bridge where people can go under it?

Precedent:

James Corner Field Operations, a landscape architecture firm, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, and Piet Oudolf, planting designer.
     New York High Line

The High Line is a public park built on a historic freight rail line elevated above the streets on Manhattan’s West Side. It runs from Gansevoort Street in the Meatpacking District to West 34th Street, between 10th and 12th Avenues.

I have looked at this design as did study it last year looking a public space, as my design involves being a public space I wanted to look at it because it is a bridge and normally bridges are made to go over water but as this design was redeveloping the highline that used to be used for the train it still conveys this ideas of connection to what is below but it is above.

How can i use water in my design?

Water features? - puddles of water? - falling water/waterfall? - stepping through water? - streams of water/paths? -bride over water on bridge? -using the water of the river? - dropping the bridge so you are walking through water?

I like the way in this design the steps come out over the water, there is a few different paths here to take, either the straight one or the steeping stones and even the just using the stones hanging out over the water.  I like the way in this design that the straight path is small so that if you meet someone one person if forced onto a different path onto the stones meaning you are forced to look where you are going and look into the water. 

Drawing Ideas

Bubble Diagrams

I wanted to look at bubble diagrams as I want to incorporate layers these bubbles give the sense that it is not all on the same level.

River Spree

Research into the width of the River Spree at Holzmarkt.

The width of the River Spree is at Holzmarkt is 75m wide. This means that my bridge will need to extend atleast this width across the space.

Looking at this as a rough guide, I decided to work with the space of 75m by 40m to cover the River. I wanted to look at this on sketch up and see the size of the space.

Sketch Up:

Looking at the space compared to one person it does look quite large, which didn't seem right.

Looking at the space with around 200+ people in it, this changes the space. They have enough room to move about themselves but by adding different surfaces, textures, materials and reflection it will create an atmosphere where you feel conformable to relaxation take a path on a journey interacting watching and learning.

Design

With the drawings they all look long, I talked about the idea of making the theatre across the whole river. This is something I want to look into and if it would fit into my concept idea and the site.

This image shows where the bridge would extend across the two sides of the river. I will need to calculate this distance to start my sketch up design.

This images highlights where the bridges are in Berlin around the site. I want to research into these more to see how user friendly these bridge are to the users and if they encourage social interactions

 View from Ander Schilling Bridge. Designed for cars but user friendly for pedestrians with the large paths. Although they are very close to the road, also on the same level as the cars. there is no sense of interaction with the river and each other, it is only a performance trying to find a path around everybody using the path.

View from Ander Michael Bridge. There are many cars on this bridge with parking and a road, there is limited pedestrian path that makes it awkward if you meet a bike or another person even, there is no connection the the river and people as the bridge that runs overtop of the end of this bridge looks as though it is a wall covering the district.

View from Janowitz Bridge. This bridge is larger still being used for both cars and pedestrians, the right hand side is larger maybe suggesting that more people use this side of the road? 

This is the area my bridge will start the Holzmarkt.

Connecting with this side of the River. I need to do some research into what is on this side of the River.

Looking at the whole bridge space area. It will be almost directly in the middle of the two car/pedestrian bridges but designed for pedestrian use only. Nick talked about giving the space right next to the river back to the people of the community I want to focus on this idea of giving back the River in my case I am using its water.

Design Drawings

I wanted to draw the River Spree path to gain some inspiration for my design in the paths that people could take. I started drawing and decided to do some blind contour to see where the lines could take me. I though that if I drew multiple lines theres could be the start of my pathway.

Blind Contour

6B Pencil

This is my first drawing where I drew the inspiration from. I followed the line of the map I previous looked at in my research into the River Spree. I then decided   I could look at multiple maps to gather different  degrees of lines using different materials. 

 Black Pen

0.8 Pen

0.4 Pen

 HB 2 1/2 Pencil

 2B Pencil

0.5 Pen

For these drawings I focused on the River and the path it creates, I looked at the Rover as a whole through Berlin and Germany and also as different zoomed in sections. I now have drawings that have created a pathway for my to start designing the different paths I want people to take and how these can all link together.

Photoshop:

Here I layered some of the drawings onto of each other to create the layers in the public space I want to design for the tension of public verse private.

Precedent: Moses Bridge, RO&AD Architecten

Architects: RO&AD Architecten
Location: Halsteren, The Netherlands
Client: Municipality of Bergen op Zoom
Material used: Accoya wood
Project Area: 50 sqm

RO&AD Architecten was contracted by Bergen op Zoom to come up with the bridge design for De Roovere. Fort De Roovere is an entrenchment that was part of the West Brabant Water Line – a Dutch defence line consisting of a series of fortresses constructed between the cities of Bergen op Zoom and Grave in 1698. De Roovere went through many renovations in 2010 and one of the main interventions was the deepening of the old moat, an important feature in the fort that gave it so much character. Once the waterline was finally restored, a bridge was then needed to provide access to the fort across the moat. The bridge blends in the landscape so well that you can barely see it from distance. As the structure is partially submerged, the narrow trench only opens up once you are right in front of it. It appears to have divided the moat’s water and the crossing is literally like walking through the water. 

http://landarchs.com/moses-bridge-walking-water/

The design speaks to me as it blends into the surrounding this is what I want my performance space to do blend into the area it is in, in the Holzmarkt. It features as a bridge where people can merge down and become part of the land, and in cold months it freezes over creating a seamless surface for recreational use.