YANN BRACEGIRDLE
Mistletoe
The site presents a unique challenge. Distinctive isolated stories from Mythology to Ecotherapy emerge throughout the strip. However, these stories have been fragmented by barriers and narratives remain legends of small, dislocated spaces and places. Over time in an effort to connect we have separated habitats that feed stories and legends in which people are intrinsically connected with nature.
Corridors, however, still run the length of the site connecting fragmented habitats and places to a unified system. These places act as spaces of respite for stories and wildlife where they are protected from the rapid urbanisation of Bristol to the West.
In the same way that corridors and barriers appear on the site, this scheme weaves through the landscape linking historical and environmental habitants through a framework of memory.
Both interventions (the Bridge and the facility) appear as features of the landscape and grow into natural forms. The process of mistletoe latching onto a tree and growing is a concept used in this project. Instead of feeding on a tree, this project feeds the Corridor / Viaduct that connects the Bridge to the facility.
This proposal aims to feed off a system of corridors and habitats to provide a place a refuge/habitat against rapid urbanisation.
In this way, the architecture will feed the environmental vernacular to provide refuge in the fast-developing world.
The site presents a unique challenge. Distinctive isolated stories from Mythology to Ecotherapy emerge throughout the strip. However, these stories have been fragmented by barriers and narratives remain legends of small, dislocated spaces and places. Over time in an effort to connect we have separated habitats that feed stories and legends in which people are intrinsically connected with nature.
Corridors, however, still run the length of the site connecting fragmented habitats and places to a unified system. These places act as spaces of respite for stories and wildlife where they are protected from the rapid urbanisation of Bristol to the West.
In the same way that corridors and barriers appear on the site, this scheme weaves through the landscape linking historical and environmental habitants through a framework of memory.
Both interventions (the Bridge and the facility) appear as features of the landscape and grow into natural forms. The process of mistletoe latching onto a tree and growing is a concept used in this project. Instead of feeding on a tree, this project feeds the Corridor / Viaduct that connects the Bridge to the facility.
This proposal aims to feed off a system of corridors and habitats to provide a place a refuge/habitat against rapid urbanisation.
In this way, the architecture will feed the environmental vernacular to provide refuge in the fast-developing world.
High Line
There is a deep connection between a wire walker and their wire (“Stage”). They are performers whose wire is a means of expression. Much like a theoretical stage, the wire is a backdrop, a tool by which a performer can express themselves. The beauty of the act is in its simplicity it is a proclamation of the human form and its capabilities. Walkers generate a sense of raw power and fragility; this juxtaposition gives direction to the project.
The juxtaposition of explosiveness and stillness combined with the exploration of the relationship between the individual and the group hands itself to tensegrity. Tensegrity structures are uniquely capable of globally distributing forces and are very robust to forces applied from unexpected directions. Tensegrity works via the relationship between individual compressive components and a network of tensile elements. This project is dynamic in its form and function and explores movement through threshold spaces.
There is a deep connection between a wire walker and their wire (“Stage”). They are performers whose wire is a means of expression. Much like a theoretical stage, the wire is a backdrop, a tool by which a performer can express themselves. The beauty of the act is in its simplicity it is a proclamation of the human form and its capabilities. Walkers generate a sense of raw power and fragility; this juxtaposition gives direction to the project.
The juxtaposition of explosiveness and stillness combined with the exploration of the relationship between the individual and the group hands itself to tensegrity. Tensegrity structures are uniquely capable of globally distributing forces and are very robust to forces applied from unexpected directions. Tensegrity works via the relationship between individual compressive components and a network of tensile elements. This project is dynamic in its form and function and explores movement through threshold spaces.
