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Igualada Pedestrian Bridge

Concrete coreTubular supportSight of both supportsStructure transportationStructure assemblyStructure lifting - 1Structure lifting - 2Structure lifting - 3FloorSight of the footbridgeSight of the footbridgeSight of the footbridge

 

Location: Igualada (BARCELONA)
Brief description: Pedestrian bridge to connect two neighborhoods in Barcelona
Architect: Enric Xercavins
Contractor: Emcofa, S.A.
Steel Constructor: Estrucad, S.A.
Cidect member: Grupo CONDESA

 

Details:
This structure was design to connect two neighborhoods in Igualada (Barcelona), one of them quite old, built in the sixties, and the other one currently created.
The main problem was the great difference between their heights, since the new neighborhood is 25 meters above the old one. This feature defines the project itself.
In this way, a lift is designed inside the concrete U-shaped core which is working to a combination of compression and bending. The free side of this core is braced with horizontal elements at sight through the glass façade cladding.
The footbridge is non-symmetrical, with a lateral cantilever of 2,90m, a width of 3,15m between the chords of the vertical lattice girders and another cantilever of 1,40m. A set of four K-lattice girders forming a square cross-section has been designed. This girder begins in the concrete core and finishes rigidly supported over a steel circular column of 1m height.