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Skuru Bridge

NACKA, SWEDEN

Skuru Bridge

NACKA, SWEDEN

2011

CLIENT

The Swedish Transport Administration

TYPOLOGY

Infrastructure

SIZE M2/FT2

406 / 4,370

STATUS

IDEA

Investments in infrastructure too often happen at the expense of the environment. When BIG was invited to design a highway bridge spanning two forested banks in the Stockholm archipelago we decided to explore a new form of symbiosis between infrastructure and nature – creating connections for people on foot and in cars, as well as flora and fauna.

The span needed to be long and tall enough to allow sailing boats to navigate the archipelago underneath the highway. The obvious solution was an arch extending between the two banks of the shore. A forest of slender steel pillars connect the structural arch with the highway lanes above.

 

Skuru Parkbridge represents a new form of social infrastructure, which is not only aesthetic and environmentally well-integrated with the natural landscape, but is also socially activating by creating a place and a park for the people who live and work on both sides of the strait.

The interaction between the two elements – the straight line of the roadway and the curving arch – form the basis for logical bridge construction as well as for infrastructural and social functions. As an attractive interaction between two simple sculptural forms, as a true embodiment of Vitruvius’s principles of firmitas, utilitas, et venustas: strength, utility and beauty.

Bjarke Ingels Jakob Lange Andreas Klok Pedersen Hanna Ida Johansson Sofia Fors Adolfsson Hans Willehader Igor Brozyna Jeffrey Mark Mikolajewski Jesper Henriksen

COLLABORATORS

Flint & Neill
Kragh & Berglund
Speirs + Major