Wind Tunnel Footbridge
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The Wind Tunnel Foot Bridge is a new covered bridge for the 21st century; a design proposal for a new kind of wind activated footbridge made of steel and aluminum.
As the wind blows, the five wind turbine wheels turn at different speeds around the people who are walking through to reach the other side. Three of the five wheels turn in one direction while the other two turn in the opposite direction.
As the wind driven wheels turn in different directions and at different speeds, they can produce different electronic corresponding sounds. The Wind tunnel Footbridge was designed to be constructed in various types of public venues as an architectural attraction.
The wheels also produce and store electrical energy much like a windmill.
There would be a fine screen inside of the bridge to keep people from getting hurt.
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I love the idea! It’s pleasing to the eye and sounds like it would be awesome! I would def. take my friends to go see this if there were to be one in my town. Wouldn’t it be really dangerous though?
bravo!
But it wouldn’t work in big cities….there’s no space for it.
looks cool, but I really couldn’t think of anyplace to put it.
Oil company say “nope”.
How about over a river? Like, in London it would be perfect.
Very good. It would be fun :D
this is interesting. we have a few local universities that have interesting art installments like this, for the sole purpose of the amazing sounds they create.
it may not be the first of it’s kind, but it’s still very cool.
now - to convert it to energy? ;)
I’ve had an experience or two with wind tunnel simulators as reflectiveness in the 9/11 memorial brain and what grabs my attention about them is that it helps you understand the intake of natural properties to mechanics much better for experiencing it. It forms an outside in shell of memories that at times severely protects you from the elements and unformentioned truths with a fiberoptic simulation abstinence. Pending on what you do with your outer shell toward yourself and others is how it treats you back. Sort of A Golden Rule thing. One thing it never lets go of is a simulation of your heartbeat elsewhere and trapped vibrating reflections. Thank You.
I’m less interested in the sound than the energy. That’s a very interesting thought…