Artery Bridge

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Architecture frequently looks to the natural world for concepts, metaphors and analogies for the generation of form. This relationship between architecture and nature generally
reaches only the superficial level, resulting in a normative architectural system “dressed up” with a biomorphic skin. The new science of emergence demands that architecture take the biological paradigm to a much more complex level, simultaneously considering the components of environment, behavior, form, structure and materiality to achieve complete integration. Specific biological precedents also exist within each of these components, providing the opportunity for multiple layers of biological influence.

Advances in analytical computation provide the means to achieve this complex organization of multiple mutually-dependent parts. This project will produce a bridge design based on the biological paradigm, exploiting the bridge’s natural connection with the environment. The bridge will become an artery of the city; a metabolic life-source that generates energy for itself and the system it belongs to. The bridge’s form, structure and materiality will be dependent upon this metabolic behavior and
environmental relationship, moving toward complete biomimic integration.