Blog Practice Projects Contact	Project Title Architect Client Archive	Plashet School Footbridge Architect: Client: Location: Status: Birds Portchmouth Russum Architects London Borough of Newham Plaistow, London Completion September 2000
Images: 1 2 3 4 5 Movies: Connection Animation Enlarge image			Plashet Lane Secondary School in East London is bisected by a busy main road. A 70 metre long footbridge curves and rises across this barrier to link the main school buildings. The structure is simplified into a pair of deep steel parapet beams made by rolling standard sections horizontally then heat bending them vertically. A cloister-like enclosure is formed by asymmetrical Teflon coated glass-fibre canopies arranged between steel arch rings. The bridge deck has a plate steel gazebo enclosure at mid-span. Used daily by children and erected within a functioning school the structure was closely reviewed for safety in use and the construction method planned out to avoid accident.