Toward 21st Century Bridge Design through Collaborative Design Process

摘要

Nowadays when structures are defined by their unique forms, innovative use of materials, contextsensitivernintegrity that create dramatic points, they are acknowledged to be world-class designs. It isrnvery difficult to design bridge structures that offer so manifold rewards, which demands a new setrnof design environment in which multi-disciplinary experts collaborate each other. Above all thernissues to address to develop new design environment, a strategic coordination among architects andrnengineers might play a key role to elevate modern bridge design to an artistic level. This paper hasrnfocused on how the common platform is being evolved for a true collaboration for architects andrnengineers toward new design paradigm for 21st century bridge design. In association with therncollaboration work, a new Silkworm pedestrian bridge was studied as a representative case that wasrncompleted through a strong collaboration between artists and engineers as well as community agent.rnA collaborative design process was developed based on this study. It is expected that architects andrnengineers can get together through the proposed design platform from conception to completion torncreate a powerful and efficient structural system and form as well.