Platform to Nowhere – Landscape + Urbanism – Jason King – 23 October 08
There’s something amazingly simple and death-defying about the detailing of this project by Todd Saunders & Tommie Wilhelmsen in a picturesque location in Aurland, Norway…”One can walk out into the air through the treetops, helping dramatise the experience of nature and the larger landscape room.”
But obviously the payoff is the infinity-pool like edge that both dares you to walk to the edge – as well as test your blood-pressure … There is something unsettling… imagine this without the railing… how close would you get – as it no only ends… which would provide some visual termination – but it actually slides away, like an eroded slope…
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