Bering Strait – Icelinks by Lateral Office

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白令海峡，沟通北冰洋和太平洋的唯一航道，也是北美洲和亚洲大陆间的最短海上通道，海峡水道中心线既是俄罗斯和美国的国界线，又是亚洲和北美洲的洲界线，还是国际日期变更线。世界上恐怕很难找到像白令海峡这么具有丰富地理意义的地方。这里会汇集着科学家的关注，拥有资源，拥有远古的传说，这里也是地球时间和空间的一个裂谷。

白令海峡长约60千米，宽35～86千米，平均水深42米，最大水深52米。如果在这里建桥，会不会超越其符号意义而具有更大的效益？

建筑师想象，充分利用这里的环境，气候，和其它资源，设计一座跨越白令海峡的陆桥，建立起一个尊重白令海峡自然的基础设施，连接亚洲和美洲。首先在国际日期变更线的位置，也就是俄罗斯小岛大迪奥梅德和美国小岛小迪奥梅德之间，建立起一个季节性的冰公园。具有政治，经济，娱乐，科学灯多重意义。根据冰的解冻周期利用海上收割机收集浮冰并得到淡水，再储存在桥基础的空洞当中。

BERING STRAIT – ICELINKS

It would be difficult to find a site more geographically charged than the Bering Strait. As a region rich in scientific speculation, exploration, resources, ecology, and myth, the remote position of the Bering Strait has had its role relegated to that of a global seam; A spatial and temporal rift.

Its remoteness is the byproduct of frequent representation as severed and disconnected edges in the flattened global map.

However, the potential of reclamation of the ancient land bridge at a continental scale is symbolically potent and logistically opportune. But how can this connection acknowledge its charged condition without merely operating as a symbol or monument to its geography?

Our proposal seeks to capitalize and highlight this unique geography, climate, and context. The scheme simultaneously creates a link across the former Beringia “land bridge” as it establishes an occupiable infrastructure. All of these should tread lightly on the landscape of the Bering Strait. The intent here is less to impose a landscape in this context than to emphasize the sublime conditions already existing. The Bering Strait is significant in its suggestion of east-west connections from Asia to North America in terms of human and culture, and equally significant in its north-south connections from the North Pacific Ocean to the Arctic Ocean in terms of marine ecologies and migration.

Our proposal balances on the international date line between the islands Little Diomede (U.S.) and Big Diomede (Russia), the bridge widens to accommodate political, athlethic, economic, recreational and scientific functions. The space between the two islands become a seasonal ice park, where a grid of sensory instruments are deployed. Making use of the freeze/thaw cycles that produce fresh-water ice, the grid also helps the ice harvesters embedded in the piers to farm ice floes, storing their fresh water potential in the base of the bridge.

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