To represent a "speculative proposal for the radical reuse and re-colonization of the bridge infrastructure," California-based Future Cities Lab has developed the “Hydraspan Bridge Colony installation: a 40-foot long, quarter-scale model that foresees a dense and agriculturally rich community suspended below the San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge.
"Suspended from the bridge trusses," Future Cities Lab describes, "thousands of fog-catching catenary ribbons sustain an inner world of domestic and agricultural activity: floating living units are tethered alongside fresh water catch basins, robotic sky pods support suspended fish farm vitrines, and the bridge trusses serve as the catalysts for social, political and commercial exchange."
See the proposal for yourself at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts’ Dissident Futures exhibition in San Francisco from now until February 2, 2014.
Design + Fabrication
Future Cities Lab (Jason Kelly Johnson and Nataly Gattegno)Team Members
Ripon DeLeon (Senior Associate) and Ji AhnProduction Team
Fernando Amenedo, Michael AthertonCommissioned by
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA)YBCA Curator
Betti-Sue HertzProject Year
2013Photographs
Future Cities Lab, Carl Bean-LarsonProject Year
2013Photographs
Future Cities Lab, Carl Bean-LarsonDesign & Fabrication
Future Cities Lab (Jason Kelly Johnson and Nataly Gattegno)
