In October, design practice Y/N studio caused a stir by designing a blueprint for a swimming lane along Regent's canal in London, so that people could swim to work. Now, the Estonian architecture studio Salto has built an equally inventive solution to the boredom of the morning commute – a 51m (170ft) -long trampoline, so that you can bounce to your destination.
The trampoline, called Fast Track, has been built and installed at arts festival Archstoyanie, and has been a hit since it was opened at the end of November in the Nikola-Lenivets forest, in south-west Russia. Made of black rubber, it is, according to Salto "an attempt to create [an] intelligent infrastructure that is emotional and corresponds to the local context, giving the user a different experience of moving and perceiving the environment".
Though other architects have experimented with trampolines – recently, architects Atelier Zündel Cristea proposed an inflatable bridge made up of three connected trampolines for a competition to design a bridge in Paris – Fast Track is certainly more sensitive to its forest environment than a road. And who wouldn't have an emotional response to bouncing through the trees?
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