The Wanhaixiang Bridge is one of a number of synchronized short to medium term measures conceived to trigger a larger-scale multi-dimensional urban-landscape operation. The objective of the operation is the construction of a ludic coastal itinerary spanning between an old railway station, scheduled to be reactivated to bring new tourists to the area, and an already consolidated cluster of museum buildings and coastal parks of cultural interest located approximately 3 kilometers away. This critical landscape is situated precisely at the geographic apex where the two distinctly prefigured faces of the urbanized coast of Taiwan touch; one (the west coast) characterized by an intensively-urbanized and heavily-industrialized continuous synthetic development, while the other (the east coast) more akin to nature, is identified as a uniquely narrow landscape corridor, squeezed between steep rolling hills of lyrical beauty and the vastness of the Pacific Ocean. A strategy based on feedback and multiplication, incorporation and juxtaposition of observed cultural, recreational, ecological, heritage, economic, and artistic activities, aims at weaving these together in a narrative that carries the visitor along the proposed renewed coastal itinerary.

望海巷景觀跨橋是我們提出一套行動策略的起手式，這一連串的短中期行動策略旨在對於基地及其周圍涵構的多面向議題衍生的濱海都市景觀再造計畫。而這些行動策略的主要目標是創造一條有趣的濱海遊憩路線，短短三公里長路徑中的八斗子車站、海科館各場館以及潮間帶保育區等濱海文化景點群，隨時準備迎接各色遊客。這基地恰好位於台灣都會化海岸兩種不同面貌的地理交會點：西海岸充斥高度城市化紋理和密集工業區塊的人造海岸線，而東海岸則在充滿詩意陡峭起伏的山陵以及浩瀚的太平洋之間，推擠出一條呈現獨特自然風貌的狹長景觀廊帶。我們提出的行動策略運用基地調研得到的反饋、再生、整合並置的各項手段，適切地回應文化、遊憩、生態、文化資產、經濟和藝術各個面向，引領遊客沿著海岸線探索此區的山海人文風光。