The new bridge connection over Tinnerbäcken in Linköping is part of a new development with refurbished baths and adjoining park, as well as new school and housing areas. The bridge proposal was developed as part of a parallel assignment organized by Linköping municipality, in which we have been the lead architect and worked together with Tyréns.

The project consists of a wooden glulam truss construction that allows the wood structure to form a legible space and with a clear shape in the large open space towards the park and within the dense vegetation of the ravine. During daytime, an interesting play of shadows appears on the bridge deck; when darkness falls, the bridge becomes a luminous lantern among the treetops.
From all sides, the bridge is perceived as a unitary whole made of wood, the material of the future.

Words from the jury: “The proposal reveals a design with a clear architectural expression that interacts with both the large-scale landscape and the ravine, as well as it is being experienced as a “room” in close-up scale. The relation to the form of the swimming pool’s roof construction and the bridges physical expression in the dark represent great qualities of the proposal.”