架构师提供的文本描述。奥克兰委员会邀请沃伦和马霍尼提供概念上的想法，以替代连接奥克兰海滨和一个山头的人行桥。这座建于20世纪30年代的现有桥梁正经受着严重的结构疲劳，随着奥克兰铁路网即将实现电气化，这座桥梁需要提升。

Text description provided by the architects. Auckland Council invited Warren and Mahoney to provide conceptual ideas for a replacement pedestrian bridge connecting Auckland’s waterfront to a promiment headland. The existing bridge, built in the 1930s was suffering severe structural fatigue and with the imminent electrification of Auckland’s rail network, the bridge needed to be raised.

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该委员会认识到这一位置的重要性，无论是它在海滨的突出地位，以及它与历史上的咸水帕内尔浴池的邻近程度，都想要一些雕塑性、典雅和标志性的东西。这些浴池是在20世纪50年代初设计的，采用国际现代风格的丽都浴池，由艺术家詹姆斯·特尔金顿(James Turkington)设计，有一幅镶嵌壁画，有着流畅而抽象的游泳者。它提供了一种清晰的角度线条语言，符合曲折的形式，并成为设计语言和几何学的关键动力。

The council, recognising the importance of the location, both in terms of its prominence along the waterfront and its proximity to the historic salt water Parnell Baths wanted something sculptural, elegant and iconic. The baths, designed in the early 1950s in the International Modern style of lido bathing pools with a mosaic mural by artist James Turkington, with its fluid and abstracted swimmers, offered a clear language of angular lines meeting sinuous form and became a key motivator of the language and geometry of the design.

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大桥的位置在港口的边缘，也提供了明显的航海典故，包括历史和现代-瓦卡和超级游艇。确定这座桥将由三个主要元素组成。

The location of the bridge at the edge of the harbour also provided obvious nautical allusions, both historic and contemporary - the waka and the super yacht. It was determined that the bridge would be formed using three primary elements.

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一个简单但造型和船体一样的混凝土甲板将从海角延伸和突出到港口。这反过来又会被一个高表现力的钢铁、电枢或外骨骼所支撑，而这些金属电枢或外骨骼则无意间引用了远处浴缸的语言。一个简单的悬臂玻璃栏杆，共面与混凝土甲板将提供屏障保护。

A simple but sculpted and hull-like concrete deck would extend from the headland and protrude out into the harbour. This would in turn be cradled by a highly expressive steel armature or exoskeleton which sinuously referenced the language of the baths beyond. A simple cantilevered glass balustrade, co-planar with the concrete deck would provide barrier protection.

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支撑桥面的钢结构是为了向原来的桥致敬，用它的三个拱门来回响。拱门开始在甲板下，作为菱形柱，分叉形成拱门。甲板是由三个独立的双细胞后张预制混凝土截面与现场缝合连接而成。甲板由钢电枢通过离散的销连接支撑。

The steel supporting the deck was designed to pay homage to the original bridge by echoing its three arches. The arches begin under the deck as diamond shaped columns which bifurcate to form the arches. The deck is formed with three separate twin-celled post tensioned precast concrete sections joined with in-situ stitches. The deck is supported by the steel armature through discrete pin connections.

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艺术家恩里亚塔·尼古拉斯(HenriataNicholas)在混凝土和玻璃表面上开发了一种水波图案。重要的是，以当代的方式微妙地完成这种模式，以确保它不会被理解为一种恩惠的文化参照。为了保证混凝土颜色的一致性，采用了染色方法。

Artist Henriata Nicholas developed a pungarungaru (water ripple) pattern over the concrete and glass surfaces. It was important that the patterning was delicately completed in a contemporary manner to ensure it would not be read as a patronising cultural reference. To ensure consistency of the concrete colour, a pigmented stain was applied.

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为了创造流体和正弦的形式，以及所需的几何精度，桥是设计和建模的犀牛与相关的参数插入式蚱蜢。参数化功能允许快速生成设计迭代，并根据体系结构和结构需求进行测试。

To create the fluid and sinous forms, along with the geometric precision required the bridge was designed and modelled in Rhinoceros with the associated parametric plug-in Grasshopper. The parametric capability allowed for design iterations to be produced quickly and tested against architectural and structural requirements.