Architectural firm Atelier Zündel Cristea bounced to third place in the A Bridge in Paris design competition with their inflatable trampoline bridge. The idea started as an inflatable bridge that would require little resources and very little interference with the ecosystem; trampolines added the fun to functional.
In other news, buy light, not lightbulbs, and an 8 year-old tells Dwell what to do with Architect Barbie. See the headlines after the jump.
• A Trampoline Bridge For Bouncing Across Paris's River Seine | Co.Design
• Never Buy A Bulb Again: Buy Your Light Instead | Co.Exist
• Eight-Year-Old Gives Dwell Two Cents on Architect Barbie | Curbed
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The bridge is total claptrap.
Hate that architecture or even I.D. had became freak shows rather than years of education, hard work and experience.
You know...that bridge looks like a lot of fun...until you start wondering how people in wheelchairs, the elderly, people carrying packages or pushing strollers, etc. would, or could, use it at all. o_O
And if it's not accessible to everyone...what's the point?