The Granville Bridge, Vancouver, Canada is an unsafe, uncomfortable and uninteresting
crossing for pedestrians. Neither does it possess an identifiable or memorable image.
Although the City of Vancouver has identified poor crossing conditions for pedestrians as
an issue that requires addressing, the current design for the City's preferred solution - a
suspended crossing attached to the side of the Granville Bridge - the current design for
this structure does not address how to make the bridge an imageable element in the city
landscape. Using the Black Rock Arts Festival - commonly know as Burning Man - as a
case study, the potential for an interactive landscape design to create an identity for the
Granville Bridge is examined. Although Burning Man fails to create a community that
integrates with its contextual landscape, its use of interactive art is successful in creating
community among participants. Through the contextual use of interactive art in
conjunction with the proposed suspended pedestrian crossing, a design is proposed that
celebrates the Granville Bridge as a conduit of motion by revealing the presence of
pedestrians. The proposed design includes design components under the north and
south ends of the bridge to conceptually ground the image on the north and south side of
False Creek, and unifies the total design with the metaphorical and literal use of dance.
The design shows that interactive art can be used to make the Granville Bridge an
imageable element in the landscape, thereby making it an integral part of the Vancouver
landscape. / Applied Science, Faculty of / Architecture and Landscape Architecture (SALA), School of / Graduate
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UBC/oai:circle.library.ubc.ca:2429/15858 |
| Date | 11 1900 |
| Creators | Teed, Jacqueline Mary |
| Source Sets | University of British Columbia |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, Thesis/Dissertation |
| Format | 3028074 bytes, application/pdf |
| Rights | For non-commercial purposes only, such as research, private study and education. Additional conditions apply, see Terms of Use https://open.library.ubc.ca/terms_of_use. |
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