韦伯网桥澳大利亚 墨尔本

客 户：湾区主管部门

完工日期：2003年12月

建设成本：400万澳元

摄 影：John Gollings, Shannon McGrath

Client: Docklands Authority

Completion Date: December 2003

Cost: $4M AUD

Photographers: John Gollings, Shannon McGrath

网桥由丹顿·廓克·马修与艺术家罗伯特·欧文合作设计；它横跨雅拉河，专供行人和自行车通行，是墨尔本港湾区的一座公共艺术作品。设计要求将废弃的港口用铁路桥重新利用。

桥的设计包括两个不同的部分：一段145米长的原有结构和一段新的80米长曲线坡桥。坡桥连接了高度不同的两端，在南岸形成入口。两个部分无缝对接，强调了蜿蜒结构内的体积和容量。

两个部分形成了统一的雕塑般的外观，新结构表现出新老之间以及过去、未来之间的新关系和结合方式。作为一件艺术品，网桥轮廓鲜明，造型优美，轻盈而简洁。空间富有动感和变幻，营造出一种独特的氛围。

网桥的设计既满足安全性要求，又要富有活力，同时具备包容性和持久性特征。原本桥的设计只提出实用功能，而丹顿·廓克·马修的设计则将之升华成了一件既具功能性和实用性，又不乏诗意的优雅艺术品。

Denton Corker Marshall collaborated with the artist Robert Owen on this pedestrian and cycle bridge over the Yarra River, as a public art project in Melbourne’s Docklands precinct. The brief called for the re-use of the remaining sections of a decommissioned railway bridge.

The design comprises two distinct sections: the 145 metre long existing structure and a new curved 80 metre ramped link. The ramp takes up level changes and creates a point of arrival at the south bank. They are joined seamlessly, with an emphasis on volume and containment, within the curved and sinuous form.

The two parts become a uni fi ed sculptural form, suggesting a new connection, or a knot, between the old and new, past and future. As an object, it appears as a delineated structure, sensuous in volume,light and linear. Space seems atmospheric, dynamic and transitional.

The project needed to be safe, activated, inclusive and durable. The design transformed the potentially utilitarian into a poetic yet functional, and practical yet elegant, solution. The bridge has not only become a symbol of the Docklands precinct, but of Melbourne itself.