FunambOule is a summer pedestrian bridge that allows visitors to climb over Sainte-Catherine Street to enjoy a new perspective and a unique experience of Claude Cormier's famous hanging ball installation.
It is designed to be disassembled and reinstalled each spring. Its technical design, a self-supporting structure deposited on the ground, allows it to be positioned each year in a different section of Sainte-Catherine Street. Like equilibrists, visitors float 6 meters above the street, on a multicolored river of plastic balls. The perforated slatted floor gives the impression of landing on threads such as birds.
The tangible expression of the project being intrinsically structural, FunambOule is above all an architect-engineer-entrepreneur integrated design exercise. Two stair towers suspend a three-dimensional curve whose camber is the same as that of the threads of suspended balls. The assembly consists of prefabricated elements of small relative dimensions, optimized for transport, that can be handled and assembled quickly and efficiently, like the assembly of a building set.
