Project Description:

The creation of this 22m span footbridge re-established a 5km circular walking trail in the remote and popular visitor destination. The highly efficient, lightweight structure bridge boasts a resilient, low maintenance, technical solution to withstand the harsh rural conditions that resulted in the destruction of the previous crossing.

Judges Comments

Building a bridge in a remote mountainous area demands special consideration about access and assembly at the design stage. The designers in this case are also the builders, and they conceived an elegant, lightweight solution which perfectly fits its rocky location. Designed as a flat-pack kit of parts for easy assembly, the 21m long bridge has perforated web panels which appear transparent in some views and solid in others, and the whole structure was launched across the ravine on temporary rails.

Structural Designer

Cake Engineering and BEAM Architects

Location

Callender, Scotland, UK