IBridge

The bridge is paradoxical, connecting and separating parts of the city depending on power dynamics. While contemporary bridges have undergone substantial transformations from their predecessors, but remain viewed with inherent distrust, necessitating historical criticism.

The IBridge project examines early modern inhabitable bridges, walled-off paths, and gated communities to reveal public privacy beyond the privatization of public paths during the transitional age of alcoves. With the collaboration of partners, IBridge analyzes Old London Bridge and the Pont de Notre Dame in Paris, at the intersection of architecture and public policy, to understand how privacy performs in the public realm.

IBridge will analyze political agents and architectural data to unfold insights that may benefit future bridges and public comfort. The interdisciplinary approach involves an ongoing exchange with historical research on socio-political, spatial, and constructional aspects of bridges at collaborative centers.

About Solmaz Sadeghi
She is a Marie Curie fellow at the Royal Danish Academy and ETH Zurich, in the research field of architectural construction and the city. She holds M.Arch., Ph.D. from Politecnico di Milano, where her thesis was on the evolution of the civic wall in the Tectonic Culture since 1850. As an architect and urbanist, she has collaborated with studios in Milan, Tehran, and Porto, and her works have been presented at Utzon Center, Milan Triennale, and Oslo Triennale. 

Solmaz is a visiting scholar at the Center for Privacy Studies (UCPH) and the Center for Early Modern Exchanges (UCL), teaching at the master programs of Complex Construction at Politecnico di Milano since 2017 and currently at the Spatial Design at the Royal Danish Academy. Her research interests are architectural elements, drawing and construction, urban interiors, public and private territories, architectural politics and criticism.