Detail View: Archivision Base to Module 13: Alameda Bridge
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Collection:
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Archivision Base to Module 13
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Preferred Title:
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Alameda Bridge
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Alternate Title:
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Puente de la Exposición
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Image View:
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View looking east from under the bridge
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Creator:
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Santiago Calatrava Valls (Spanish civil engineer, born 1951)
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Location:
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site: Valencia, Valencia, Spain
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Location Note:
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spans the Turia river
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GPS:
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+39.473145-0.366015
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Date:
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1991-1995 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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Spanish
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Style Period:
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Twentieth century
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Work Type 1:
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bridge (built work)
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Classification:
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architecture
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Material:
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painted steel
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Technique:
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construction (assembling)
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Measurements:
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130 m (length, main span) x 26 m (width); 163 m (length, total)
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Subjects:
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architecture; cityscape; engineering and industrial design; manufacturing; bridges (built works); City planning
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Description:
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Both an architect and civil engineer (with a doctorate on the technology of space frames), Calatrava produces dynamic structural forms that challenge traditional practice in both architecture and engineering. His approach to bridge design, for example, is based on the view that bridges can be used ?to add energy to the landscape?. [Alameda Bridge is an arch bridge which is a roadway and pedestrian walkway.] (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/)
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Collection:
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Archivision Addition Module Five
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Identifier:
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1A1-CS-AB-A8
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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