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The project is spread transversely to the infrastructure of the Biasca Train Station. It acts as a link between two diametrically opposed urban reality: on the one hand, the urban grid of Biasca, the other a lay of the land that separates the town from that portion of the uncontaminated nature of the mountains above the station. A key element that draws the attention of the entire valley is the cascade of Santa Petronilla, with a total climb of 95 meters divided into three jumps from the water flow, only one of which is easily accessible on foot.


The project has about a second axis that acts as an intermediary / governs the relationship between the two pre-existing buildings used as warehouses and rail depots of swiss historic trains. Two units of the bridge then, the main one that goes over the railroad tracks and a secondary through the first building to the North. Then, dropping slowly in altitude, the museum brings the viewer inside the building to the south until arrives on the ground floor.


The attempt of this project, inextricably bind to the network of pedestrian walkways pre-existing starting from the Via Crucis of Santa Petronilla, who share the town leads the viewer to the highest point of the waterfall.

The large deck along around 190 meters is characterized by four supports, which may act as staircases; the fourth vertical element enters in contrast strongly with the presence of the waterfall, like a tower, fully enclosed with a roof terrace that overlooks on the valley in its highest point.

With this gesture, the vertical design, with a single movement, brings the user to the intermediate level of the cascade, in a place almost unreachable for the elderly, disabled and children, but a fantastic location to spend a few hours of relax.

Urban Crossing

Panorama Footbridge

Biasca- Switzerland

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