St Petersburg Pier Mimics Wave Motion

For the St. Petersburg Pier International Design Competition there have been overall three shortlisted submissions among which BIG architects proposed the “St Petersburg Pier Mimics Wave Motion”. The task was to connect the bay water with the city of Petersburg. The Danish firm BIG architects divided the concept into three parts: the Tributary Park, the Wave Walk and the Wave itself.
The Tributary is the on-shore part of the project comprising museum, playgrounds and green areas giving the whole design some sort of colorfulness.
The Wave Walk takes us out onto the water and has as much to offer: swimming pool areas to the sides as well as fishing areas, restaurants and bicycle tracks. This concrete path turns into a looped shaped structure representing a wave’s motion. While all of the Wave Walk and Wave structure are kept in concrete, the sides of the loop are made up of glass allowing for a great view from inside the loop where we have exhibition spaces and banquet halls as well as rooms intended for spa activities spread across the different levels within the loop: salt bath room, steam room, but also a botanical room and even a snow room. Under the loop in the open air area we find a climbing wall and an additional area is available for concerts and outdoor markets. On top of the loop, the roof terrace offers yet another excellent all-around view.

In the very last step following the loop, the path ends with a submerge into the water.
As mentioned earlier the idea of the project is to mimic a wave’s motion, this is why we have the loop and a structure going underwater and rising again to frame a swimming pool, moving on all the way towards the mainland.