one of the major problems at tintagel is this incredibly rocky landscape. we wanted to be able to get lots of people here who could not get here before, because there were so many steps up to the island, a lot of people could not because they had bad knees, used wheelchairs or whatever it was. now we have essentially step free access right from the car park all the way through onto the site, and it was so satisfying on the opening day to see literally a queue of wheelchair users from the local village queueing up to be the first person to cross the bridge and onto the island, something that they might not have done for many years. in my mind, this was a textbook example of how you should design a major piece of engineering in a really sensitive heritage site. we can look at lots of designs for bridges that would actually have to go through the
the project was to improve accessibility to the site. one of the major problems at tintagel is this incredibly rocky landscape. we wanted to be able to get lots of people here who could not get here before, because there were so many steps up to the island, a lot of people could not because they had bad knees, used wheelchairs or whatever it was. now we have essentially step free access right from the car park all the way through onto the site, and it was so satisfying on the opening day to see literally a queue of wheelchair users from the local village queueing up to be the first person to cross the bridge and onto the island, something that they might not have done for many years. something that they might not have in my mind, this was a textbook example of how you should design a major piece of engineering in a really sensitive heritage site. we can look at lots of designs for bridges that would actually have to go through the archaeology
a queue of wheelchair users from the local village queueing up to be the first person to cross the bridge and onto the island, something that they might not have done for many years. in my mind, this was a textbook example of how you should design a major piece of engineering in a really sensitive heritage site. we can look at lots of designs for bridges that would actually have to go through the archaeology on the surface of the island. the elegance of this solution is it is anchored into the rock on either side below the sensitive archaeology, very clever. the materials we used were important notjust structurally, but also how it will tie into the landscape, the situation. for the bridge deck we have used mined slate, mined from the quarry just two miles away. 40,000 hand split and hand cut slates have been laid on edge like after eight mints.