Research Article

Contradiction and consistency: Deconstruction of landscape bridges based on multiple temporal-spatial scales

  • Haifei Zhou , 1,2 ,
  • Edoardo Currà 2 ,
  • Jiawei Leng , 1 ,
  • Yu Xu 3 ,
  • Wenkang Hu 1
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  • 1. Department of Architecture, Southeast University, Nanjing, China
  • 2. Department of Civil, Building and Environmental Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
  • 3. Department of Architecture, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

Received date: 10 Jun 2021

Revised date: 02 Aug 2021

Accepted date: 23 Aug 2021

Published date: 15 Feb 2022

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2021 2021 Higher Education Press Limited Company. Publishing services by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of KeAi Communications Co. Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

Abstract

This study explores the essential issues pertaining to a landscape bridge based on a multi-scale methodology, in view of the paucity of design theories for contemporary landscape bridges. We contribute to reinterpret landscape bridges on their physical temporal-spatial scales, instead of from perspectives of individual disciplines or their mechanical cooperation. Envisaged in a new systematized framework, we elaborate the dominant and their opposite counterparts of landscape bridges from a binary deconstruction point of view, i.e., (1) Development and retrogression on the temporal scale, (2) connection and separation on the spatial topographic scale, (3) skyphilia and topophilia on the spatial landscape scale, and (4) extroversion and introversion on the spatial architectural scale. The deconstructed multifaceted scales are instrumental in understanding landscape bridges from various perspectives, with a pyramid model proposed afterward to mediate the discovered oppositions and stimulate the cross-scale interactions. Various possible design paths could be derived from this well-organized and openminded multiple system, which is initially expected in this study to inspire bridge designers with dissimilar backgrounds and calls for a wider ramification.

Cite this article

Haifei Zhou , Edoardo Currà , Jiawei Leng , Yu Xu , Wenkang Hu . Contradiction and consistency: Deconstruction of landscape bridges based on multiple temporal-spatial scales[J]. Frontiers of Architectural Research, 2022 , 11(1) : 53 -72 . DOI: 10.1016/j.foar.2021.08.002

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