De gallery op Nesselande is verrijkt met een reeks foto’s van de bekende Blue Bridge.
Waar Nesselande is voorzien van een diversiteit aan bruggen die deels door top-architecten zijn ontwerpen valt vooral de de blauwe brug bij Metro Nesselande richting De Kristal wel heel erg op.
De blauwe brug is volledig voorzien van LED-dots die niet alleen energiezuinig zijn maar vooral in de nacht voor een sublieme verlichting zorgen.
De Blue Bridge zit dan ook in menig foto-portfolio van Nesselanders. In de gallery op deze site is een selectie te vinden.
De ‘ brug van wind en water ‘, zoals deze officieel heet is ontworpen door architect Hans Moor: Bridge of wind and water The area of Nessellande, Rottedam Netherlands features typical Dutch qualities of a wide and open landscape combined with the elements of wind and water. The bridge is meant as a place where these features meet. For example when walking over the bridge one becomes aware of the horizon. A church in the distance, a feel of the wind blowing and the sound of water dashing on a shore. One becomes aware of the elements of nature. The bridge combines elements far off and close by. A question during the development process was how these different experiences (factors/elements) could provide space. For the bridge is chosen to bring the experience of wind and water closer to the traveller. By designing two routes, pedestrians are separated from cyclists and cars. The driver of the car while sitting inside, is almost unaware of the elements of wind and water, this opposed to the pedestrian who cannot avoid these elements. The pedestrian route leads to a wind and water installation. It is an installation made of two parts and connected by perforated steel that can be crossed by the pedestrian. The water installation reacts to the movement of the water below the bridge, a part is floating on the water; the wind machine is motioned by the wind. Below the pedestrians’ feet the water is moving visibly. In this way wind and water provides an experience of simulated weightlessness to the pedestrian. The bridge is mainly made of steel. The columns situated above and below the water are in concrete The road surface designed for cars is made of moulded asphalt The upper deck of the walking route is made of wood panels combined with perforated steel.