Brigde Built Out of Paper


	Brigde Built Out of Paper

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7-28-2007 5:50 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/9c18eb74-10bf-491e-8af5-788c35b11911/3D026A84-0B0C-412B-8CA5-4CD025A2E265/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/07/shigeru_ban_bui.php" href="http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/07/shigeru_ban_bui.php" style="font-size: 11px;">www.treehugger.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/07/shigeru_ban_bui.php"><H3 class="entry-header"><A href="http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/07/shigeru_ban_bui.php">Shigeru Ban Builds Bridge Out of Paper</A></H3></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/07/shigeru_ban_bui.php"><P><IMG width="400" height="239" src="http://www.treehugger.com/paperBridge2.jpg" alt="paperBridge2.jpg" /></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/07/shigeru_ban_bui.php"><P>Shigeru Ban is familiar to TreeHuggers for his <A href="http://www.treehugger.com/files/2005/05/shigeru_ban_des.php">eco-friendly buildings</A> and use of <A href="http://www.treehugger.com/files/2005/03/nomadic_museum_1.php">unusual</A> materials; now he has built a bridge out of cardboard tubes. It's in France, half a mile from the Pont du Gard, an ancient Roman bridge; Ban says "It is a very interesting contrast, the Roman stone bridge and the paper bridge. Paper too can be permanent, can be strong and lasting. We need to get rid of these prejudices." </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/07/shigeru_ban_bui.php"><P>The bridge can hold up to twenty people at a time; it was load tested with balloons filled with 1.5 tonnes of water. There are 281 four inch diameter tubes, plus steps of recycled paper and foundations made from wooden boxes filled with sand.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/07/shigeru_ban_bui.php"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.treehugger.com/img/AAEAAF6B-E6AE-499C-8C85-A7F36932F6E1" alt="paperBridge1.jpg" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/07/shigeru_ban_bui.php"><P>"A bridge was one of my dreams," Ban said, as he thanked the two dozen French architecture students and three from Japan who built the bridge as a month-long project.<A href="http://spluch.blogspot.com/2007/07/bridge-made-of-paper-unveiled-in.html">::Splurch</A>
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