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    Proposed for the National Building Museum in Washington DC, this bridge will connect high level galleries on either side of the museum’s main internal space which lends itself well to large and distinctive sculptural forms. Developed in collaboration with Cecil Balmond of Arup, it is conceived both as a temporary link structure and as an exhibit in itself, interactively demonstrating structural behaviour in real time. The bridge is to be constructed from a network of glass tubes acting as compressive elements and joined together by cables in a ‘tensegrity’ structure. The underlying geometry is based on a series of tetrahedral cells, replicated numerous times to accumulate a visual mass capable of asserting itself within the extraordinary scale of the museum’s courts while remaining essentially light. Load cells within the structure will detect variations in forces to activate a system of LED lights in the glass tubes together with sound emissions in response to visitors using the bridge.

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    Proposed for the National Building Museum in Washington DC, this bridge will connect high level galleries on either side of the museum’s main internal space which lends itself well to large and distinctive sculptural forms. Developed in collaboration with Cecil Balmond of Arup, it is conceived both as a temporary link structure and as an exhibit in itself, interactively demonstrating structural behaviour in real time. The bridge is to be constructed from a network of glass tubes acting as compressive elements and joined together by cables in a ‘tensegrity’ structure. The underlying geometry is based on a series of tetrahedral cells, replicated numerous times to accumulate a visual mass capable of asserting itself within the extraordinary scale of the museum’s courts while remaining essentially light. Load cells within the structure will detect variations in forces to activate a system of LED lights in the glass tubes together with sound emissions in response to visitors using the bridge.

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    Proposed for the National Building Museum in Washington DC, this bridge will connect high level galleries on either side of the museum’s main internal space which lends itself well to large and distinctive sculptural forms. Developed in collaboration with Cecil Balmond of Arup, it is conceived both as a temporary link structure and as an exhibit in itself, interactively demonstrating structural behaviour in real time. The bridge is to be constructed from a network of glass tubes acting as compressive elements and joined together by cables in a ‘tensegrity’ structure. The underlying geometry is based on a series of tetrahedral cells, replicated numerous times to accumulate a visual mass capable of asserting itself within the extraordinary scale of the museum’s courts while remaining essentially light. Load cells within the structure will detect variations in forces to activate a system of LED lights in the glass tubes together with sound emissions in response to visitors using the bridge.

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    Tensegrity Bridge
    Proposed for the National Building Museum in Washington DC,
    this bridge will connect high level galleries on either side of the
    museum’s main internal space which lends itself well to large
    and distinctive sculptural forms. Developed in collaboration
    with Cecil Balmond of Arup, it is conceived both as a
    temporary link structure and as an exhibit in itself, interactively
    demonstrating structural behaviour in real time.

    The bridge is to be constructed from a network of glass tubes


    acting as compressive elements and joined together by
    cables in a ‘tensegrity’ structure. The underlying geometry is
    based on a series of tetrahedral cells, replicated numerous
    times to accumulate a visual mass capable of asserting itself
    within the extraordinary scale of the museum’s courts while
    remaining essentially light. Load cells within the structure will
    detect variations in forces to activate a system of LED lights in
    the glass tubes together with sound emissions in response to
    visitors using the bridge.

    Details
    Location: Washington DC, USA
    Client: National Building Museum, Washington DC
    Architect: Wilkinson Eyre Architects
    Structural Engineer: Arup

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