韋伯網橋澳大利亞 墨爾本

客 戶：灣區主管部門

完工日期：2003年12月

建設成本：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

網橋由丹頓·廓克·馬修與藝術家羅伯特·歐文合作設計；它橫跨雅拉河，專供行人和自行車通行，是墨爾本港灣區的一座公共藝術作品。設計要求將廢棄的港口用鐵路橋重新利用。

橋的設計包括兩個不同的部分：一段145米長的原有結構和一段新的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，強調了蜿蜒結構內的體積和容量。

兩個部分形成了統一的雕塑般的外觀，新結構表現出新老之間以及過去、未來之間的新關系和結合方式。作為一件藝術品，網橋輪廓鮮明，造型優美，輕盈而簡潔。空間富有動感和變幻，營造出一種獨特的氛圍。

網橋的設計既滿足安全性要求，又要富有活力，同時具備包容性和持久性特征。原本橋的設計只提出實用功能，而丹頓·廓克·馬修的設計則將之升華成了一件既具功能性和實用性，又不乏詩意的優雅藝術品。

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.