Sky Walk is born

Group meeting Friday 3rd Feb

As a way of moving forward we have made some executive decisions.

Firstly, this blog is now up and running. A place to brainstorm, drop ideas interesting facts and open the forum for group voting.

We have a main precedent of the High Line in New York, we need to properly crit this, is it good? what are the problems? compare it to our site. The obvious one is that this New York is disused railway and ours is very busy.

Paul is going to work on finding out all we can about the HighLine and will publish soon.

The rest of us are looking for any other precedents/ideas that can inform our design.

Project Name

This was important to move us forward. Some suggestions Green Arc, Sky Way, Sky Garden, Sky Park, Air Walk, Sky Walk, Bridge park,

Group vote - The London Sky Walk has it.

crits of the name - sounds a bit starwars? Luke Sky Walk? Hope George Lucas is ok with this, maybe he can fund it.

Sketch Model

We have a crit on Friday 10th Feb and Damon has agreed to develop a rough concept model of the whole line scale 1:4000. We can then move on and split the line into 6 so we can each develop part of the model.

It seems a good idea to look at Sky Walk as though it spans different urban spaces and split the bridge up this way. i.e derelict area, posh area , theatre area. The design on the Sky Walk at each particular point can then be tailored towards this.

Consider the history of the area the Sky Walk is spanning.

Remember the space on the ground too. Underneath, over, side by side. A strong aspect of the High Line is the regen that has occured underneath it.

Access is important. Lifts for bikes. Use the Sky Walk as a bike route in London, walking route, markets, park land, ecology....

We need to produce a slogan, a tag line for the project. Lets each think of one and vote our favorite.

We also need to put our ideas into a simple concept plan with the slogan attached. So we can direct our vision going forwards and make sure that although the design and use of each section may be  different we are fitting this into our concept at all times.