Project Name: Marsupial Bridge & Media Garden
Project Type:
1) urban planning design strategy
2) landscape design
Project Mission/Goal:
1) improve the human spirit
Project Description:
The Marsupial Bridge & Media Garden converts an unsafe underbridge area into a civic gathering space for film festivals, regattas, and other river events. The position of the Urban Plaza within the existing viaduct presented an unusual challenge due to the lack of natural daylight for plant growth. Accordingly, this area could not be defined through landscape design in the conventional sense; rather, concrete benches are set amidst a moonscape of gravel and seating boulders. The benches provide a respite for pedestrians and bicyclists as they make their way across the Marsupial Bridge, and by night the benches are lit from within, transforming the Plaza into a beacon for the neighborhood. This strategy challenges the traditional notion of public space as a ‘town square,’ or ‘village green,’ and provides a site-specific program for the underbridge zone.
text from: http://www.ladallman.com/prj_urban_plaza.html
Links and Captions:
http://www.ladallman.com/prj_urban_plaza.html
http://www.archidose.org/Feb09/23/dose.html
Project Details:
LOCATION: Holton Street Viaduct, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
DATE: 2005–6
END USER: Pedestrians and bicyclists of Brewers hill, Brady street and Beerline B neighborhoods
IMPLEMENTING AGENCIES: Cityofmilwaukee, Wisconsin Department of transportation
DESIGN FIRM: La Dallman architects
ENGINEER: Bloom Consultants
ELECTRICAL ENGINEER: Powrtek Engineering
LIGHTING DESIGN: Noele Stollmack Lighting Design
CONSTRUCTION: Lunda Construction
FUNDING: Federal Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality grant awarded to the City of Milwaukee Department of Public Works; matching funds from the City of Milwaukee
COST: $3.35million USD
LENGTH: 195m/642ft
WIDTH: 3m/10ft
Nominated by Cameron Sinclair
