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Warwick Bridge (Panel 2)
WARWICK BRIDGE
Warwick Triangle, Durban 1996
designworkshop : saEthekwini Muncipality
response, delivery and outcome
As a major intermodal transport interchange, Warwick is an entrance and exit portal to thecity. Not only for people coming and going from suburbs of all kinds on the perimeter of thecity, but also for people continuously coming and going between the city and rural areas farbeyond it.
This unique phenomenon of people living equally in two very different places – the postindustrial city and the traditional rural hinterland , separated only by time, presents a veryinteresting opportunity in the design of the threshold where these two worlds meet withinthe individual human experience. Warwick is this threshold.
In addition to its functional purpose, the freeway splines and the bridge were alsoopportunities for representation of the transformation of the economy, cultures and societyof the city, and it’s transforming relationship with its hinterland.
The objective of the design was to use as few resources as possible to provide an