Now the large buildings will always be caught in some strange competition, skyscrapers compete to be the highest in the region, the world’s tallest, even if higher than the previous just a little bit of the tip; bridges are also the longer the repair, want to cross the river, cross the sea to do the world’s longest bridge. Recently in a scenic spot in Qingyuan, Guangdong, there is a 526-meter-long glass-bottom bridge was confirmed by Guinness World Records as the world’s longest glass-bottom bridge. More curious than this length is why we love building glass bridges so much?
The world’s longest glass bottom bridge
This Huanchuan Three Gorges Prime Glass Bridge was built by Zhejiang University Architectural Design Institute (UAD) in the Huanchuan Three Gorges Scenic Area in Lianzhou, Qingyuan City, northern Guangdong Province. In order to connect the two sides of the Lianjiang River, which is 201 meters high, this glass bridge is 526.14 meters long and 8.8 meters wide, and can accommodate 500 people at the same Time.
Huangchuan Three Gorges Scenic Area is located in an area known as the “Lingnan Poetic Corridor”, which is the end of the ancient Qin-Han Road and has the largest waterfall group in northern Guangdong, and is not overly developed. The hot and humid climate of the south allows it to remain evergreen all year round. If the bridge is an art of connection and communication, the original intention of this glass bridge is to add an artistic touch to the green mountains and water. But this bridge does not connect the distance between the artificial and the natural. A long way away you can see two bright red towers, if the intention of building a transparent bridge is to reduce the artificial color and nature between the abrupt sense, then this red is very obvious contradiction, erase the “modern architecture hidden in the natural ” poetic meaning.
After zooming in, you can see the bridge hole and two golden yellow similar to the Chinese knot symbols, perhaps to reflect the local minority cultural characteristics, but with the red bridge hole together, is not enough to have a sense of design, and the landscape together with the mountains and clear water look incompatible.
If you consider the practicality of a pedestrian bridge, it is quite innovative while ensuring the practicality, but from the point of view of architectural aesthetics, it is a little difficult to say.
However, after the Guinness World Records, the bridge has become a new local landmark, its miraculous nature to attract a large number of tourists, the original purpose of the local bridge is also considered to have achieved.
The flooded glass bridge
In China, perhaps every glass bridge mission is to attract more tourists, there is the first success, there are countless scenic spots before and after, now there are more than 4,000 glass bridges all over the north and south of the river, as if the glass bridge has become a natural scenic spot standard.
The first domestic glass bridge from the building to taste the sweet is 2014 began construction of the Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon glass bridge, later solicited the name “Cloudy Day”. 2018 In 2018, it also won the Arthur Hayden Award, known as the Nobel Prize for bridges, and CNN included it among the 11 most spectacular bridges in the world.
As a major attraction in Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon Scenic Area, the Cloudy Sky Ferry has been a constant topic of conversation since the start of construction. Before that, almost no scenic spot with glass to build a bridge, coupled with Zhangjiajie’s own aura of beauty, the bridge has not yet been built, there are already many people in the heart to buy a good ticket.
Yuntiandu glass bridge in August 2016 began to open to the public, a daily limit of 8,000 people, just two years received 6.2 million visitors. On the short video platform, there are countless promotional videos and experience videos about the Yuntiandu Glass Bridge at one time.
The bridge was designed by Israeli architect Haim Dotan, he took the “Daodejing” “big sound, big elephant invisible” as the design inspiration, proposed to build The idea of the invisible bridge. The natural scenery of Zhangjiajie is one of the best in China, and it has been used as a Film and Television set for many times, with fantastic mountain peaks and different scenery in all seasons.
Haim Dotan did not want to destroy this natural scenery, he wanted to make the bridge and the nature as one, people walk on the bridge as in the clouds. It is not difficult to build a bridge, but it is not easy to make it disappear into the natural landscape, so he chose glass as the construction material, making the glass bridge transparent and ethereal, but also light and stable.
Modern architecture and natural scenery mix collision to bring people a lot of surprise, suspended glass plus hundreds of meters of cliff composition of the sense of excitement is also curious, so there is a Zhangjiajie sample, the domestic scenic spots have built a glass bridge, and as the biggest gimmick.
The glass bridge has become almost a cash cow, from 5A-level scenic spots to small ecological parks, glass bridges began to grow wildly, who are thinking of relying on this kind of netroots architecture to attract the fastest time to the largest traffic, once and for all to get back the cost, get rich quickly.
The original design of the cloud sky ferry or hidden in the landscape of this mood, but with the proliferation of glass bridges, “higher, more transparent, more frightening” has become the only pursuit, and therefore Design sense was reduced to a minimum, there are also a variety of dazzling 3D, 5D effect, looks difficult to say.
The first glass bridge is a surprise, the 4,000th glass bridge is completely east of the knit, scary experience is only the first few times can bring people shock, soon let people lose the sense of freshness, aesthetic fatigue. Coupled with frequent safety accidents, the end of last year, many glass bridge scenic area was forced to shut down. Let people lament is that only in Hebei province, 24 scenic spots there are 32 glass bridges, they are without exception, all shut down.
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