Footbridges have long become extinct as a mode to connect to nature given the growing architectural edifice all over leaving little space for greenery. Stephane Malka Architects, however, has seamlessly blended nature with a utility space while merging pedestrian flows along the banks of the Seine at Issy les Moulineau. The effort to sketch out infrastructure with active elements, to the appearance and traditions of the city and integrate it to the river, the rail, the periphery ring road, and the bank-side expressway, Stéphane Malka, has designed a traffic route covered in greenery and hovering up above the base level of the congested city.
Architectural elucidation for footbridges has been reinvented to take a step forward towards a more natural existence with the Issy les Moulineaux Boulevard in suburban Paris along the banks of Seine. Architectural design studio Stéphane Malka has facilitated a green passage through the city unifying ecological demands of a busy city to perceptional demands of inhabitants to an open skyline, to the demands of her client Bouygues Immobilier. The structure of the E05 periphery ring road, spreading across an area of 2.8 km, is such that it is on a raised structural level so as to remove common city disadvantages of abundant high-rise obstructing view line, diminutive greenery, pollution and ground level congestion.
To establish a new enhanced form of travel passage and meet these visual and physical restrictions the architectural team has reorganized an innovative sequential movement route along the axis of the quays by Boulevard Gallieni. The bridge-like edifice creates a consistent organic stretch easing through major entry points to and from Issy les Moulineau. The overhanging bridge in itself serves a great deal of natural ventilation but also offer shade to strong metropolis directives. The vegetal elements are planned such that their subsequent growth and retrenchment generates a kinetic consequence, provoking manifold pragmatic sequences around the pedestrian. Its appearance being very natural causes a constant change in the surroundings establishes new local identities for interaction between pedestrian and vehicular traffic.
The architectural team of Stephane Malka comprising of Ana Alexandra Sa, Marine Puissant, Alice Barrois and Mathilde Moati has dreamed this innovative green urban paraphernalia to re-establish ecological balance for mounting city ills without distorting utility while expanding breathing space.
Via: Evolo
