Tyresta National Park's new bridge is prominently featured in the Swedish magazine ‘Arkitektur’. The bridge, located south of Stockholm, is developed to integrate functional design with the surrounding landscape.

The new bridge in Tyresta National Park south of Stockholm, a collaborative effort involving Gottlieb Paludan Architects, AFRY Sweden and Stráský, Hustý a partneři from the Czech Republic, receives a six-page feature in the latest issue of the Swedish magazine Arkitektur. The article highlights the bridge's integration of functional design with the natural environment, and the design of the new connection that complements the park's beautiful landscape. The bridge improves accessibility within the national park, meeting practical needs while ensuring the preservation of the natural beauty of the area.

Arkitektur recognizes the project's achievement in harmoniously marrying simplicity with sophistication. The article notes the bridge's "visual simplicity conceals an advanced construction," and attributes its success to a "humble pragmatism" in its design:

”The bridge represents a classic Swedish modernist approach to nature, humble and pragmatic. It is a way of looking at building that modernism derived from its admiration for what Gustaf Näsström, in his book Svensk Funktionalism (1930), calls ‘the functionalism of vernacular architecture’. But here carried out by Copenhagen-based architects. But then, modernism's relationship with nature was never a particularly Swedish story.

In the 1950s, the American architecture writer Esther McCoy described a California architecture that would become classic. One of her texts was about R. M. Schindler's architecture: ‘It is like a bird that has just landed on the ground, wings still outstretched but immediately part of the earth.’ That's pretty much how this bridge feels. It is not a simple trick.”

The bridge project is a result of Gottlieb Paludan Architects, winning an open design competition with 27 entries in 2019. AFRY and Stráský, Hustý a partneři joined the team for the detailed design and construction phases and PEAB was the main contractor for the construction project.

Thomas Bonde-Hansen, Creative Director at Gottlieb Paludan Architects says: “This project is a great example of how an ambitious client, thoughtful design solutions and dedicated collaboration can create new infrastructure that improves people's access to nature with minimal impact on local natural assets.”

Read the full article online: https://arkitektur.prenly.com/shared/article/nationalparkens-nya-funktionalism/0KKOkaac

To subscribe or purchase single issues of the magazine Arkitektur, you can follow this link: https://arkitektur.se/produkt/arkitektur-nr-5-2024/ 

Read more about the project on Gottlieb Paludan Architects’ website here: https://www.gottliebpaludan.com/en/project/bridge-tyresta-national-park-sweden