As Small Infrastructures Make a Great Landscape: Green Belt 7 Bridges Project, in Lingang, Shanghai

This paper relates to the Conference's theme: "Footbridges as an important part of a system: the context as an experience". Our purpose is to explore the relations between the small and the large scale and the ability of the former to modify the later. Infrastructures such as footbridges are often pieces that solve local problems, i.e., to save topographical discontinuities, but according to our thesis they also entail an enormous potential to become links of mega landscape structures, transforming and enriching them. To develop our argumentation, we will use our project Green Belt 7 Landscape Bridges. After introducing the context, we will explain the design of a phenomenological system, followed by the presentation of each bridge as a built public space and a virtual navigation network that links them all. The conclusions synthesize how relations among singular interventions, through a common comprehensive narrative, make the result more complex than their sum of the separate projects and allow for a new understanding of the territory to emerge.

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