A Bouncy, 560-Foot-Long Trampoline Road

We swim, run, and cycle to work. Why not jump? Just last month, Co.Design wrote about a French architect’s plan to build a trampoline bridge across the Seine. Now, a group of Estonian architects have built a trampoline walkway through a Russian forest. Mathematically speaking, we’re only one piece of trampoline architecture away from a full-on trend. Salto Architects’ 560-foot-long trampoline walkway, Fast Track, was built this summer as part of an emerging architecture festival called Archstoyanie. The six-year-old event is held in the small village of Nikola-Lenivets, a few hours outside of Moscow, that has recently blossomed as a center for contemporary art (think DIA:Beacon for Russia). The community has a surreal flavor, building installations like a wooden replica of the Large Hadron Collider and other otherworldly follies that are sometimes conflagrated, &...