5 October, 2009
(6 Votes, average: 3.33 a 5)
Loading ...Yesterday was inaugurated “Kurilpa Bridge” en Brisbane, without doubt a special bridge for many reasons.
First, surprisingly, this design is the result of a design contest and play. This is a joint proposal Baulderstone Pty Ltd (construction company), Cox Rayner Architects and Arup Engineers.
The Gateway aims to be the first bridge, based on structured tensegrity, although in reality the concept of Tensegrity is distorted in batteries,where the intersection of the board and two masts in V is a meeting between 3 elements tablets. Either way, the structural concept is inspired by the tensegrity and in view of its complexity deserves praise for its ambition and audacity.
One of the most difficult in this type of structure is the construction, because the integrity of the structure is not reached until it has completed its final scheme. In this case, the main span on the Brisbane River has 120 m span and the board has built cable-stayed cantilever forward from the two batteries. A common technique, although adapted to the complex geometry of the runway. In this video you can see the construction sequence of Kurilpa Bridge.
Formally, the gateway port of sailboats evokes a, remembering a landscape of masts, pens and cables. The end result is a flimsy and innovative gateway.
It is difficult to gauge the degree of innovation that the gateway enters the structural design. Many years have passed since the invention of the notiontensegrity and Kurilpa Bridge is one of the few attempts to implement the design of bridges. Time will tell if it becomes a reference solution that will evolve in future projects, they are either in a pretty difficult to overcome than.
For more information:
Queensland Department of Public Works
Kurilpa Bridge in Baulderstone Pty Ltd
Kurilpa Bridge in Cox Rayner Architects
Kurilpa Bridge in Arup Engineers
Kurilpa Bridge in The Happy Pontist
The photos are taken from the previous websites.
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No está mal!, spectacular. I wonder also behaves this typology in front of the dynamic effects, not be the first gateway of Arup closed to the public, jeje.
I have an incredible feeling of deja-vu having already seen another bridge with this typology, but I can not remember which. To see if anyone has seen it also helps me, I'm going crazy.
I think that this attempt is not so clear of tensegrity has been no gateway before. I've seen renders as this, this or this, but never been successful beyond the academic, I know.
My personal view on the bridge is a bit bittersweet, although the concept appeals to me much tensegrity, the implementation of this structure seems inelegant. The lightness of the structure is lost to the geometric chaos of wires and poles. Moreover lighting looks pretty neat and from what I read is a LED system powered by solar panels!
As with any unique, time act as judge.
Hola Jaume,
The bridge could be looking for one of three:
Royal Victoria Dock Footbridge. Although not a tensegrity structure, is inspired by this concept and the Fink truss.
The Footbridge en Roma Tor Vergata. You can get information through the link that has left us Paco. I let you post a link to The Happy Pontist.
The gateway at the National Building Museum in Washington. As in the previous case, You can obtain information on the link and Paco has left us this link to the article of Happy Pontist.
Thank you very much for your comment. Also you, Paco.
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