A skin that can be interpreted at different scales. At a distance, it is a sculpture weaving out of the art precinct of James Street Mall and connecting with the shoppers in new Sarugaku. The users of the bridge can interpet it as a sculpture from the wood cylindrical skin, or as the path that they use to get from A to B.
Drivers going under the bridge can also interpret the bridge as being affected by the constant throng of traffic on Beaufort Street.
There are obviously other methods of determining how something is interpreted at different scales. I would classify the bridge as a suggestive method. Another interesting possibility that could have been explored as well is the use of LED technology, which has come in leaps and bounds.
For example, the Ilumina building in Singapore uses such technology and it would have been interesting to see how that would have worked at a scale such as the bridge. Or maybe even smaller like the bus stop that was never realised.
And extending that idea a little further is the use of LED technology that reacts when it is touched (see picture second from bottom) which could indicate to the one way traffic of Beaufort Street when people were inside the bridge.
My only regret is that I didn't have one of those weather forecasting supercomputers which would have been required to realise the perforated wooden cylinder. Anyway, it seems to work in section and elevation (and obviously in plan... it's just a path after all) so it's not all bad.
