RO&AD, an architectural firm whose name sounds very much like a quote from an intoxicated Chris Farley, recently designed The Trench Bridge. A pedestrian foot path designed to make us rethink the way we look at bridges, this one crosses the moat in front of Fort de Roovere in Halsteren. A neat concept, but one that would only be applicable on a small scale to bodies of water that stay at a constant depth.
Via: Laughing Squid
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I’ve done this many a time in roller coaster tycoon, funny how that works.
Yep!
I did it in the Pacific Pyramids scenario with the Exodus in mind. Wasn’t the only time.
what happens when it rains?
Obvious foresight on the engineer’s part. Cause it’ll never rain, right?
The engineer did fine. Its the architect that’s always an idiot.
Clearly the surveyor used the wrong benchmark.
lol shifting culpability win
It has pumps.
Shirley Manson gets happy?
Why not just make a transparent tunnel that goes under the water and only opens at the very top of the bank? That would be cool, too
You can see that in a lot of zoos that make a tunnel on the bottom of a large aquarium.
No boats going under that bridge . Maybe over it at high speeds .
Which would make a bridge like this most handy for British secret agents attempting to evade capture by ineffectual goons.
It’s an easy kludge (hah hah). Make the trench deep, and have the pedestrians walk across a grate; that way the Trench Bridge would never flood.
Any problems with this installation would be water under the bridge — along with the understanding that there is no water under the bridge.
It’s a good prospect for an ecosystem to completely bisect a body of water for aesthetics.
It’s still a bridge, not a dam. There is still water gunig under the bridge. Otherwise the slightest breeze would cause the water on the windward side to push up over the bridge.
You’re saying that waves, that are caused by wind, go under that construction?
It’s a not like it’s a natural body of water, it’s a castle moat.
…it’s a canal.
Man-made, yes, but it still harbors life.
(heh, harbor)
It’s rather lovely. I approve.
I wish people would stop with the expression “make people re-think how they look at” things. It just makes me think they’re twats for trying to sell us the ArtSpeak version of “Oh, cr@p, I subtracted the height above water instead of adding it!”
Cynical? Moi?
I’m with you. It doesn’t solve a single problem – it only creates them. Much more effective to build a normal bridge there.
I disagree. It has a very low profile so when it is useable it doesn’t obstruct the view of the moat as much as a normal bridge, something that would greatly help the tourist experience in an old castle.
It’s arguable that the view is less impaired or that it’s even important to not see a bridge that you kind of see anyway. The key is understanding that it does nothing for the tourist experience when it isn’t useable and requires a higher level of maintenance while still rendering it unusable part of the time.
LOL! I’ve done that in ray-tracing sometimes.
Yeah I agree. I “look at bridges” as a way to cross over water without getting wet. Why would a trench that easily gets flooded make me “rethink” that? It’s a whimsical piece of architecture, but not an alternative.
I agree, a little more thought on the drainage of the bridge, but a “duckboard” arrangement would solve that.
For those of you who say about it bisecting an ecosystem, google map the fort. its a moat, not a lake or river and is actually a bit deeper than the bridge, what point is a moat that an attacker can easily wade across?
Also having visited it and not seen any fish anywhere in the moat i would say that there is minimal ecosystem to worry about.
Do you know what typically was dumped into moats? Not so much something I’d want to wade through, or live around for that matter.
some have the theory the carpenter jesus travel backwards in time and builed things like this and mudered the dinosaurs
How much pot was involved with that theory?
This would not work where there are alligators or anything else that would eat children’s hands.
Flash mob. Everyone bring a siphon!
…and then it rained…
It’s in the Netherlands, building below the water level is completely normal for them.
Is anyone else disturbed by the amount of stairs needed to climb to get off that thing?
So you can’t get a boat past it, it floods internally easily, its significantly below the flood line (look at how high the banks are).
Its not a bridge – its just nonsense modern art. Someone let an advertising agency take control of an engineering project