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Pangolin, or house?

What do you build when a seven-meter-deep stream divides your land, and you’re not allowed to place foundations within the width of the gorge?

Wallmakers Architects designed The Bridge House in Karjat, India, as a 100-foot suspension bridge composed of four hyperbolic parabolas, using minimal steel pipes and tendons for tensile strength and wrapping it in overlapping mud-thatch ‘scales’ reminiscent of the skin of a pangolin. Image: Studio IKSHA