I’m excited about a new project that Glen and Tony have begun, so excited that I’m going to jump the gun and give you a sneak peek to celebrate this productive week. Our latest adaptive reuse initiative involves repurposing, aluminum and wood docks that we inherited on a different property a few years ago. I plan to showcase their progress in the next couple of weeks, but today I’m going to show you their dock-to-bridge preview.
We’re overdue for replacements of the old wooden bridges (and even an old stone bridge, I believe) that provided access through Rosslyn’s backland over the years. Aluminum docks reimagined as backcountry bridges? You bet!
And while project progress is still super preliminary, too premature for a thorough exposition, these photos strike me as an appropriate introduction. A single dock section. Glen and Tony are still experimenting with the most suitable construction plan, iterating, troubleshooting, learning by doing. Soon this project will appear more bridgelike, but right now the first section remembers its last as a dock. No longer lakeside, but protruding from the bank of a stream deep in a forest. A dock becoming a bridge…
Thank you, Glen and Tony, for launching this new adventure!
What do you think?