Students at CPUT have imagined what could be made of Cape Town’s infamous unfinished bridge above Port and Alfred Streets.

Uploaded by YouTube user Oliver Hall, the lengthy blurb for the video reads:

With careful planning in regards to the needs of the users, the possibilities of the site, and the requirements of the larger city or neighborhood, such program can be realized in a single multifaceted project.

Such project can contribute to the life of the city (the physical composition of its structures, the interaction of its people and the vibrancy of its public spaces) through an Architectural intervention of flexibility and experiential connections that serves the different needs and program requirements of individual users and the connections of the site and city.

The intervention focuses on the unfinished bridge in the heart of Cape Town CBD, which the increasing number of man-made objects ones sense of place can be lost along with the past eco-systems. The intervention focuses on a public space whereby people can connect in a natural environment and escape the “city life”

The intervention aims to add a natural setting to a built environment to restore eco-systems and enhance environmental standard of the city, by re-scribing the bridge designated for vehicular transport into a pedestrian driven intervention and the creation of a positive situation from a present existing.

It’s a better idea than plonking a giant vuvuzela on the thing, that’s for sure.

[Thanks, Jacques!]