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.