The design of Flowin’, the new pedestrian bridge for Moganshan Town over the Fuxi River, begins with a careful analysis of the chosen project site. The generation of the form was guided by a series of parameters: the relationship with the anthropic and natural context, the tectonics, and its structural behaviour.
Project name
Flowin’ Footbridge
Architecture firm
Barberio Colella Architetti + Angelo Figliola
Location
Moganshan Town, China
Tools used
Rhinoceros 3D, Grasshopper, Karamba, V-ray
Principal architect
Maurizio Barberio, Micaela Colella
Design team
Maurizio Barberio, Micaela Colella, Angelo Figliola
Collaborators
Zhenghui Chen
Visualization
Barberio Colella Architetti
Client
Deqing County Cultural Tourism Development Group Co., Ltd.
Typology
Infrastructure › Footbridge
Striatus is an arched, unreinforced masonry footbridge composed of 3D-printed concrete blocks assembled without mortar. Exhibited at the Giardini della Marinaressa during the Venice Architecture Biennale until November 2021, the 16x12-metre footbridge is the first of its kind, combining traditional techniques of master builders with advanced comput...
Architecture firm
Zaha Hadid Architects Computation and Design Group (ZHACODE), Block Research Group (BRG) at ETH Zurich, incremental3D, Holcim
Location
Giardino della Marinaressa, Venice, Italy
Length
3D-printing path lengths (per block) = 602 m - 1754 m
Design team
ZHACODE: Jianfei Chu, Vishu Bhooshan, Henry David Louth, Shajay Bhooshan, Patrik Schumacher. ● ETH BRG: Tom Van Mele, Alessandro Dell’Endice, Philippe Block
Structural engineer
ETH BRG: Tom Van Mele, Alessandro Dell’Endice, Sam Bouten, Philippe Block
Construction
Bürgin Creations: Theo Bürgin, Semir Mächler, Calvin Graf, ETH BRG: Alessandro Dell’Endice, Tom Van Mele
Photography
Studio Naaro, Tom Van Mele, Alessandro Dell'endice, in3d
