A bamboo bridge at golden hour, arching across open desert on fanned bamboo towers, people crossing on top
Resonance Studio

Design in development · 2027

The Resonance Bridge

Walk above the playa.

01

The idea

A bamboo bridge you climb, cross and gather under.

The A1 presentation board, v2: plain views of Ed Wilkes's two-tower model with the confirmed dimensions, elevation, plan and key figures
Board A1 Concept design v2, October 2026.
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02

The bridge

Climb the ramp, cross above the crowd, gather underneath.

Looking through the arch of the bridge to the open playa, a fanned tower on each side
Through the arch.
On the deck of the bridge: the walkway with net handrails between fanned bamboo towers
On the deck.
Concept image of the bridge at sunset, people crossing on top and cycling past underneath
At sunset.
Close view of a tower: bamboo culms lashed together at the waist, the arch and lattice beyond
A tower.

Concept renders, AI-assisted from the SketchUp model.

03

Structure

Ed has run early form-finding and load studies; engineering to follow.

Film Model walk-through.
Film Structural analysis.
Side elevation of the bridge: the walkway over the towers and ramp legs
Elevation Side view.
Plan of the bridge showing the pole footprints of the towers and ramp legs
Plan Pole footprints.
Overall
38 m long · 7.3 m wide at the tower crowns · 9.4 m high
Towers
Two woven hyperboloids, 9.4 m tall, 12.2 m apart; 2.2 m waist at 3.6 m
Deck
1.4 m wide · 44 m walked end to end · 6.35 m at the crown
Footprint
38 m × 5 m on the ground

From Ed Wilkes' model, 3 October 2026; design in development.

Towers
64 asper culms, 8 m (515 m in all)
Spans
83 asper culms, 8 m (660 m in all)
Construction poles
37 tali, 8 m (16 towers + 21 spans)
Tie poles
70 tali, 3 m
Steel rings
2, 4 m diameter

Ed Wilkes' first count, 14 October 2026; preliminary.

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Concept design Elliot Fabri and Ed Wilkes · Resonance Studio

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