Aerial Trail

One of the pressing topics directly related to high-rise construction is the transport of the future. Modern society is more and more inclined towards the refusal of citizens to use private cars in favor of public transport and walking. One of the steps also approaching the creation of an ideal city was the competition task of The Metals in Construction magazine 2019 Design Challenge, which offered to participants to design projects for a suspension bridge over which pedestrians could easily and enjoyably reach their destinations in New York.

Brief

The Metals in Construction magazine 2019 Design Challenge is a competition to generate ideas for making foot travel a more attractive, engaging component of living and working in a city. 

With urban environments overly reliant on automobiles, creating elevated, landscaped thoroughfares that encourage foot travel can reduce congestion and improve the overall experience of urban life. One testament to this is the popularity of the High Line’s transformation of an abandoned railroad spur into a pedestrian walkway, stimulating development in adjacent neighborhoods along the way. The High Line captivates New Yorkers in a way that few projects do. It also demonstrates the potential such projects have to revolutionize urban landscapes by serving not just as places for public recreation, but also, when properly designed, as preferred modes of travel for commuters to use on a daily basis.

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