珠海无限循环大桥

10 DESIGN + Buro Happold最近赢得了中国珠海十字门中央商务区大桥的初审竞赛。大桥古朴典雅的身躯联系着两岸，像是无限循环雕塑般的连续性结构从桥面下高升如天。上下形成两个三角面。路面有双车道双向路面以及行人交通路面。人车流畅通无阻。

这里海岸线复杂蜿蜒，一个简单的袋装抛物线状大桥形成2个简约的跨拱，在保持结构的和利时，也形成一个8字，这在中国意味着吉利。该设计还需要其另外几个设计共同进行考量，未来才能知晓是否可以实施。

10 DESIGN + Buro Happold

Infinity Loop Bridge

Zhuhai Shizimen Bridge Competion

Release Date: 25 MAY 2012

10 DESIGN and Buro Happold have won the international design competition for the key signature gateway bridge for the new Shizimen Business District in Zhuhai, China.

The feature bridge is the gateway entry to south China’s new planned commercial hub and also marks the connection of the Shizimen Canal to the Pearl River Delta.

Working together in one of their first collaborations the 10 and Buro Happold team set out to create a simple and elegant structural solution for a bridge that would be a visual focal point both within the Shizimen District itself and along the Pearl River Delta coastline.  The winning bridge scheme proposes an undulating ribbon of structure that wraps around the 6 lane road deck in a continuous sculptural loop form. At low levels the loop cradles the road deck, with the structural ribbon then soaring upwards to create 2 triangulated arch forms.

These triangular gateways, one primary and one secondary, support the road deck over 2 separate distinct spans via suspension cables. The primary triangulated gate is 100m in height and by diagonally crossing the deck of the bridge celebrating not only the crossing of vehicular and pedestrian traffic, but also the meeting point of the canal with the Pearl River Delta.

The continuity of the loop structure is visible from the opposite mainland shoreline to the west, and appears as a dramatic free standing infinity loop.

Complex coastline conditions created an odd and asymmetric span, however we realized that by tying 2 simple parabolic arches together in a single ribbon form we could split the bridge into 2 simpler spans. Thereby keeping a rational structure while making a strong formal statement, in that the bridge when reflected off the water created a double 8 figure, a sign of prosperity in Chinese culture.

As well as the gateway bridge the team was also placed 2nd & 3rd in the competition for two of the 4 secondary bridges crossing the canal.

Design Team – 10 DESIGN

Design Partners: Gordon Affleck & Adrian

Boot

Team:

David Emmer, Colin Ashton, Adrian Boot, Carlo Maria Ciampoli, Frisly Collop, Phil Gray,

Magic Kwan, Mike Kwok,Jon Martin & Rob Rodriguez

Design Team – Buro Happold，Kien Hoang , Hayden Nuttall

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