Pedestrian Bridge Rosenburg

The more than 20-meter-long pedestrian bridge in the Kamptal was meant to be a part of nature, connecting a forest path with a small country house nestled in greenery, while spanning a creek with a 15-meter free span. An architectural challenge that Karl Gruber solved with a delicate, bionic steel construction, which, like the path leading to it, widens and narrows at various points.

For the bridge deck, the joint choice of the homeowner and architect was a material with similar durability to steel: Mareiner Kebony, as no other terrace wood could better combine high resilience with a natural look.

Thus, the residents and visitors of the house now walk over water on an Austrian natural product with tropical wood-like properties. In a gentle up and down, as the width of the bridge, which was awarded the Austrian Steel Construction Prize in 2019, varies, so does its deck rise and fall in an original way.