World Walk

24,900 miles around the globe mapped onto a pedestrian bridge

Design Team: Legge Lewis Legge (Murray Legge, Deborah Lewis, Andrea Legge), Cook Shop (Travis Cook)
Builder: CookShop
Consultants: Structural Engineering Associates, Leap!Structures
Photography: Leonid Furmansky
Size: 1,920 sf
Year Completed: 2017

World Walk turns a pedestrian bridge into an immersive atlas in San Antonio, Texas. The bridge becomes a walk around the world, covering 24,900 miles of vast and disparate regions of the globe as a map permanently etched across the entire concrete bridge span. Colored steel tabs are permanently affixed to the existing chain link and highlight corresponding climactic zones, while special steel tabs developed in collaboration with local area public school students are etched with a myriad of corresponding geographical subjects and information.

The house was constructed with double wythe CMU exterior walls and an internal steel and Douglas fir frame. All essential systems, including plumbing, mechanical, and electrical components, were deliberately left exposed, ensuring convenient maintenance and access for future modifications.