桥梁是一种工程结构。它不仅能够将人从一个地点引至另一个地点，更能提供一种情感体验：有时候，当人们在不同地点之间移动的时候，会得到一种身心上的愉悦感。而当人们从高处向下看的时候，这种愉悦感将会得到进一步的增强，从而在很大程度上赋予了桥梁一种冥想空间的意境。

本项目中的这座桥梁位于Gdora溪流之上，在设计之初建筑师们便进行了头脑风暴。他们希望能够通过一种设计方案来反映上文中所提到的愉悦感和冥想意境，同时将联系着该地区的过去与现在的纽带保留下来。

▼天桥局部鸟瞰，partial bird-eye’s view of the bridge ©Beeri Ben shalom

A bridge is an engineered structure whose purpose is to facilitate passage from one location to another, but it can also provide an emotional experience: the movement between two points can sometimes provide a sensation of excitement and expansive good feelings. Looking down from a great height intensifies the sensation, and, for the most part, adds a meditative dimension.

As part of our initial brainstorming about designing the bridge over the Gdora stream, we sought a way to reflect these sensations along with maintaining a bond to the past and present values imbued in the locale.

▼天桥外观远景，distant view of the bridge ©Yoav Peled

Gdora天桥的跨度高达220米。行人和骑自行车的人可以从其东南侧通向Kiryat Bialik市的入口进入天桥空间，穿过Ha’amakim街，到达Kiryat Ata。这座天桥与Gdora溪流平行，从地理位置上将两条规划中分别沿着溪流和城市东侧边界建设的步道连接了起来。实际上，本项目可看作是通往Kiryat Bialik市的大门和通道。

作为Ha’amakim改造项目的一部分，项目基地所在的原有街道被扩建为四车道，Matronit电车轨道也横穿过街道的中心。随后，建筑事务所BO Architecture接到委托，在这里建造了一座专为步行人士和骑自行车的人服务的天桥，并通过这座天桥将上文中提到的步道连接在一起。Gdora溪流一直通向城市周边的田野里，向南流入基顺河（Kishon），经过Ha’amakim街道下方的地下通道，随后汇入街道两侧的明渠中。值得一提的是，在这些明渠的沿岸遍布着种类繁多的动植物群和水生植物，如各种鸟类、无脊椎动物和典型的水道植被等。

The Gdora Bridge spans 220 meters, for pedestrians and cyclists to pass over Ha’amakim Street at the southeastern entrance to Kiryat Bialik heading towards Kiryat Ata. The bridge runs parallel to the Gdora stream, connecting the two parts of a future promenade that will pass alongside the entire length of the stream and the city’s eastern border. The bridge essentially serves as the gateway to the city of Kiryat Bialik as well as acting as a passageway.

As part of the Ha’amakim renewal project, expanding the street into four lanes with the Matronit tram running through the center, BO Architecture was commissioned to design a bridge for pedestrians and cyclists, that would connect the two sides of the streams’ promenade. The Gdora (Fuara) stream, which drains the fields surrounding the city and flows southward into the Kishon, flows in an underground channel underneath Ha’amakim street, and surfaces again to an open channel on either side of the street, where a wide variety of flora and fauna, water plants, birds, invertebrates and vegetation typical of waterways lives along the banks.

▼天桥外观，专为步行人士和骑自行车的人服务，exterior view of the bridge which is for pedestrians and cyclists ©Yoav Peled

溪流沿岸和街道两侧巨大的桉树赋予了项目基地一种独特性。设计方案主要考虑到了三类人：在桥上缓行的行人，快速通过天桥的骑自行车的人，以及从桥下穿过Ha’amakim街的开车人士和步速不同的行人等。Gdora溪流和沼泽地都是该地区历史的一部分，并作为地域记忆的一部分被保留了下来。受这二者的启发，建筑师们从形式、场所感和移动体验等三个层面入手，进行本项目的设计。

The zone designated for design, is characterized by large eucalyptus trees along the banks of the stream and on both sides of the street. Our planning challenge was to design for three major target audiences: pedestrians who may be walking slowly, cyclists passing rapidly over the bridge, and drivers and those on foot passing through Ha’amakim Street at varying speeds who experience the bridge from below. The Gdora stream and the swampland that characterized the area in the past are part of its history and present memory of place, forming our inspiration for designing the bridge on several levels: form, feeling of place, and experience of movement.

▼天桥外观，exterior view of the bridge ©Yoav Peled