Anchored
Located in the Most Beautiful Small Town in Canada of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Anchored is a bridge to a view of the quaint port town’s colourful waterfront and its surrounding peninsula. Inspired by the town’s main attraction of Bluenose II, a replica of an early 1900’s racing ship and vessel that served as a provincial icon for Nova Scotia, the bridge presents itself as an historic ship anchored to a dock.
The main structure is supported by 5 masts placed at the junctions between each section with sloping supporting cables that represent sails, and a steel tieback system that invokes a traditional capstan.
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Derek Shin
Lunenburg, Canada
Pedestrian Bridge
1B Visual Communications 1B Building Construction (Winter 2022)
Isabel Ochoa, Terri Boake
Rhino 7, Adobe Suite (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign), Enscape
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ground planIn order to achieve the “anchored” effect, the bridge had to be designed accordingly. The tensile forces of the steel tieback system (which is anchored by a concrete deadman) are equaled by the mast and tension cables.
force diagram
view of Lunenburg
section aadetailed structural section