Brommy New Footbridge
Berlin, Germany
Timeframe 2017
Type pedestrian and cyclist footbridge
Budget ca. 8 Mio EUR
Span 110 m, Length 150 m, Width 4 – 7 m
MateriaL Steel
Architect + Engineer Sterling Presser
Phases Call for idea LP 1 – 2
Client TU / Senat
Prize Finalist World Architecture Festival 2017
Publication “The world footbridge for Berlin”, Jovis
Exhibition Galerie SubjectObject Schöneberg, Berlin
Brommy New Footbridge
Berlin, Germany
The historical, cultural and geographic contexts are a unique background to the project, marked by a history of resistance. The site is a place of reunion and division where 2 bridges have already been built and destroyed. The East Side Gallery, along the site, is recalling the old city division between East and West. Since 1989, the graffiti’s and the street art express messages of freedom, hope and liberation. The footbridge proposal is not only a crossing structure but a unique opportunity to create a strong link above the river Spree, and with the East Side Gallery. The bridge channels the landscaping flow of 2 spiraling energy along “The Wall” vestige into a new unique flow on the other side, symbolizing the regeneration after resistance, and creating a new place of reflection, contemplation through a meditative walk.
The footbridge is constructed as a diagrid structure. Its apparent seamless and faceted form participates to the abstraction of the whole shape – without any hierarchy. One option is to use of mirrors as a key feature within the structure to abstract the footbridge object into an experience, starting from the dense wall to the light reflection of the water. It would open a new virtual dimension a “dream catcher.”
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