Bamboo Bridge Idea Finished

So the last few weeks as the previous post has stated, I have been quite sick in hospital and subsequently my project has taken a huge hit. I have decided to finish off the bamboo bridge idea that I was in the middle of creating before I got sick..

Following my test that I did earlier, I wanted to design the bamboo bridge model using the three main walkways that would need to be connected more directly for our space to work. The rest of the pathways would have been incorporated (if I did not get sick) into our design would have be on ground level and would have been amongst the trees to create an immersive experience.

This is the design process to make the bamboo bridge I have at the moment:

I have begun by creating two components, first for the 'y' form that the bridge will follow in order to link the different walkways, and secondly the arched component to rise the bridge above the ground so people can walk under it.

I have begun by making a bamboo component and then copying and pasting it a hundred or so times around a point with an angle of about 7 degrees. This gives the allusion of a nice smooth turn, however due to the fact that the bamboo components are straight, getting them to follow this sort of form without overlapping one another was near impossible.

I then repeated this but flipped it so that it replicated the arch and transitioned into one another a lot more fluidly. I began with a straight ramp but when the two walkways met, let's just say it didn't work at all. This is the best I could do. 

The next step once I had the above form for my bridge, I then began to make the bamboo follow the other component that I made earlier to create rise in the bridge.

Once both components are removed one gets this result.

Once both components are removed one gets this result.

I then chucked my sketch-up model into Indigo renderer to see how it looked like once rendered, turned out not too bad to be honest. There are flaws with the construction of this design, however unfortunately I could not find a way around these as hard as I tried. This was a cause of both a limit in the programme and also my knowledge of the programme. If I had more time, I feel as though I could have tidied the model up a lot more, but unfortunately I do not have that luxury.