Viaduct Architecture

Highways are a web-like surface that convey materials and people across territories. When elevated as viaducts, these two-dimensional surfaces are transformed into three-dimensional spaces. These spaces are dually characterized by large physical artifacts- columns, walls, decks- as well as dramatically altered atmospheric conditions, like expanses of shadow. In cities, the complexity of this two-part space, physical and atmospheric, is compounded by a third dimension – the sectional interface between local flows of urban life and the region scaled flows of the highway.

https://doi.org/10.35483/ACSA.AMP.105.61

Volume Editors
Luis Francisco Rico-Gutierrez & Martha Thorne

ISBN
978-1-944214-07-4