客 戶：灣區(qū)主管部門

完工日期：2003年12月

建設(shè)成本：400萬澳元

攝 影：John Gollings, Shannon McGrath

Client: Docklands Authority

Completion Date: December 2003

Cost: $4M AUD

Photographers: John Gollings, Shannon McGrath

網(wǎng)橋由丹頓·廓克·馬修與藝術(shù)家羅伯特·歐文合作設(shè)計(jì)；它橫跨雅拉河，專供行人和自行車通行，是墨爾本港灣區(qū)的一座公共藝術(shù)作品。設(shè)計(jì)要求將廢棄的港口用鐵路橋重新利用。

橋的設(shè)計(jì)包括兩個不同的部分：一段145米長的原有結(jié)構(gòu)和一段新的80米長曲線坡橋。坡橋連接了高度不同的兩端，在南岸形成入口。兩個部分無縫對接，強(qiáng)調(diào)了蜿蜒結(jié)構(gòu)內(nèi)的體積和容量。

兩個部分形成了統(tǒng)一的雕塑般的外觀，新結(jié)構(gòu)表現(xiàn)出新老之間以及過去、未來之間的新關(guān)系和結(jié)合方式。作為一件藝術(shù)品，網(wǎng)橋輪廓鮮明，造型優(yōu)美，輕盈而簡潔。空間富有動感和變幻，營造出一種獨(dú)特的氛圍。

網(wǎng)橋的設(shè)計(jì)既滿足安全性要求，又要富有活力，同時(shí)具備包容性和持久性特征。原本橋的設(shè)計(jì)只提出實(shí)用功能，而丹頓·廓克·馬修的設(shè)計(jì)則將之升華成了一件既具功能性和實(shí)用性，又不乏詩意的優(yōu)雅藝術(shù)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.