Watch Flower

JOURNEY TO THE TOP — To climb 7.5 m with a wheel-chair 152 m of ramp is needed; an extreme distance if stretched out like the bicycle ramps at high-way overpasses.

ACCESSIBILITY — Rotating around a central spinal stair, BIG created a folded 152 m ramp in the shape of a giant flower, rising from the quay to the top.

MONOLITH — Constructed as a monolithic steel structure of welded plate steel, the Watch Flower’s handrails and ramps double as structure and infrastructure.

STRUCTURE — The steel parapet serves as the beam, the floor plate provides stiffness, and every time the hairpin bends touch one another they provide additional rigidity.