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Nature Bridge

Ecological pedestrian bridge

Clients: Municipality of Shiraz, Department of Urbanism and Architecture

Principal Architect: Notash Dadjoo

Design Team: Notash Dadjoo, Rasha Kiani, Maryam Dadashi,Anahita Barari, Leila Alilou

Site area: 25000 sqm

Place: Shiraz, Iran

Designed year: 2020

Honors: Winning candidate of Trezzini award, 2023

 

The Ecological Pedestrian Bridge

Landscape in all kinds of its phenomenon can be experienced by everyone in their ways. Child playing with grasses and the old watching the people. Each step of walking alone has a social effect, making dialogue connects the ecology patches, moving forward make history. Each kind of enhancing the encounters through (public realm (of the city (of the nature))) will strengthen the sustainability of living.

The designed bridge is an ecological corridor that connects different natural patches of the region, such as gardens, the river and the mountain. Rather than acting as a linear narrow pedestrian bridge, it is a set of interconnected spaces with many components with predefined characteristics.
The structure of these spaces is designed in such a way that in addition to the pedestrian's movement flows, it provides a variety of choices and possibilities for diverse audiences, including people with disabilities and cyclists, as well as creating plaza-like open spaces among them. Each of these spaces draws the pedestrians and creates hangout spaces, gathering places and views spots for the surrounding landscape. Since each plaza is covered with native vegetation, the sum of all of them forms a stepstone corridor between adjacent ecological patches.

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