Future Systems' lime-green steel footbridge streaks across the dock of West India Quay, floating on its cylindrical pontoons like an insect on a pond.
The bridge has a low-rise profile and a tapering plan, which emphasises the perspective viewpoint of pedestrians. At night, the handrails light up.
The deck is supported on a series of X-shaped tubular steel struts linked to a central under-spine. The struts have circular foot plates, which are bolted to the pontoons. The span of the bridge is 80m.
Architect: Future Systems
Services engineer: Rendel Palmer & Tritton
Quantity surveyor: Bucknall Austin
Contractor: Littlehampton Welding
This video shows the movement of the bridge as the bridge is not build into the dock. Through observation we can see that on either side of the bridge we can see wheels. As you can clearly see here in this video that the bridge moves down slightly as people walk by.
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