Snow Covered Bridge

Snow Covered Bridge presents a traditional Japanese stone or timber bridge — a standard feature of garden and landscape design — under the transforming weight of winter snowfall. The bridge's structure, normally defined by the precision of its arch or the regularity of its planking, is softened and rounded by accumulated snow, its form suggesting the original construction while replacing its characteristic sharpness with the organic irregularity of frozen precipitation. Asano renders this transformation with care for how snow changes the visual character of architectural structures he knew well in their unsnowed state.