LUO Studio completes intricate wooden bridge in Chinese water village

Hundreds of wooden elements are bolted together to form Timber Bridge in Gulou Waterfront, the latest project by Chinese architecture office LUO Studio.

The 25-metre-long bridge is located in Gulou, a water village in Jiangmen. This unusual manmade landscape, formed of a network of waterways and ponds, once provided an infrastructure for fishing and farming.

With the area now being rebranded as an eco-tourism resort, Gulou Waterfront, LUO Studio was tasked with creating a new pedestrian bridge in the heart of it.

The Beijing-based studio chose to predominantly use wood, in tribute to the traditional construction techniques employed in the rural villages of southern China, where wood is in plentiful supply.

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