Future Firm: The Stork’s Stair

The Stork’s Stair begins with a simple observation: the bridge crosses the park but never meets it. In Logroño, the Puente de Hierro (the “Iron Bridge”) is the oldest of the city’s crossings over the Ebro River. It links the historic center to neighborhoods on the northern bank. On the south side, it passes above the Parque del Ebro, moving across the landscape in a long, uninterrupted line.

Because of the Ebro River’s volatile flooding cycles, both the park and the bridge are designed to accommodate periodic high water. As a result, the Puente de Hierro stretches across the landscape as a long, uninterrupted span, with no “off-ramps” into the park below. From above, the park is visible but unreachable. From below, the bridge belongs to another level of the city.

The stair introduces a small act of spatial disobedience. Constructed from scaffolding, scaffold wrap, and temporary lighting, the project borrows the language of construction sites and provisional urbanism. This vertical connector links the park’s ground to the bridge above, turning a piece of pure transit infrastructure into a moment of occupation. Partway up, a small platform offers a place to pause. From there, the river, the park, and the bridge come briefly into alignment.

The project takes its name from the white storks that nest in the park. The cigüeña’s distinctive ascent—from riverbank to sky—inspires the project’s vertical movement, echoing the moment of flight.

PROJECT CREDITS

Author: Future Firm
Team: Ann Lui, Craig Reschke, and YunWoo Kim
Client: Concéntrico
Institutional support: MAS Context
Additional institutional support: Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts
Produced by: Grupo Cero and Reprocentro
Location: Puente de Hierro, Logroño, Spain

PRESS

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