'Beautiful Songdo Central Park at Night'... Five Bridges Newly Renovated with Scenic Lighting

Central Park in Songdo International City, Incheon, is transforming into a beautiful park even at night.

The Incheon Free Economic Zone Authority announced on the 25th that the "Songdo Central Park Bridge Landscape Lighting Improvement Project," which began in July, was recently completed. The bridges with improved landscape lighting include five locations: ▲Arch Pedestrian Bridge ▲Lake 1 Bridge ▲GCF (Green Climate Fund) Bridge ▲Gale Bridge ▲Strolling Garden Bridge.

The Incheon Free Economic Zone Authority initiated the improvement project because the lighting fixtures on these bridges were old, causing partial outages, and the original structural aesthetics of the bridges were not highlighted due to the use of harsh primary colors (blue, green, yellow), which clashed with the nighttime environment of Central Park.

For the pedestrian bridges crossing the waterfront, the authority avoided color changes and used sunset colors (warm white) as the base to emphasize the bridges' form. By varying the tones of white colors, they created a lively effect as if the bridges were breathing.

Songdo Central Park Arch Footbridge
Photo by Incheon Free Economic Zone Authority

Additionally, after sunset, each bridge features a specialized lighting effect where color or tone changes occur for only 10 minutes at the top of every hour. These specialized effects consider the characteristics of each bridge. For example, the GCF Bridge's upper structure, shaped like a rainbow, sequentially changes through six pastel tones over three minutes. The Strolling Garden Bridge and Gale Bridge use sunset colors as a base to highlight their forms and create subtle movements.

In particular, the Arch Pedestrian Bridge uses special lighting (a type of advanced lighting that projects light while changing patterns) on both the upper and lower parts of the bridge, creating a spatial pattern effect. The Lake 1 Bridge has improved glare from the lighting fixtures illuminating the bridge piers.

Kim Jin-yong, head of the Incheon Free Economic Zone Authority, stated, "By providing landscape lighting that offers an interesting experience, we aim to give citizens a special experience, which will also help increase visitors and revitalize nearby commercial areas. We will continue to create landscapes that citizens can enjoy, making the Incheon Free Economic Zone a vibrant city at night and a global city people want to visit."

Songdo Central Park Strolling Garden Bridge
Photo by Incheon Free Economic Zone Authority

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