In Progress: Xidayinggang Twin Bridge / CA-DESIGN
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Architects: CA-DESIGN / Architecture and Urban Planning
Location: Qingpu, Shanghai, China
Director in charge: Pedro Pablo Arroyo Alba
Project year: 2010
Photographs: Montse Zamorano & CA-Group
The Xidayinggang Twin Bridges will be the most important landmark of the future expansion of Qingpu. The objective is to provide the city for a symbolic structure, reasonable, inexpensive, and avant-garde at the same time.
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Given the scale of the structure, we propose the combination of arches as the most suitable solution. In reaction to the context, the angle of the river and roads with the axis of the bridges, we make the arches jumping from side to side of the deck. Since the heights of the arches are proportional to their spans, they don’t touch each other. The rotating stiffeners generate a series of virtual surfaces of double curvature, which emphasize the dynamism of the space. It is crucial to control the continuity of the arches at the ground level, and their connections with the deck, tangent and intersecting, which make the cables to alternate the alignment of their anchoring points.
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The “balanced asymmetry” of the project resembles the profile of a chain of DNA, as metaphor of the vitality of the new city.
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I wonder sometimes why I haven’t thought of that. Simple and neat. Beautiful!
So much grand conceptual design coming from China… so much bottled up energy now being poured out. Bravo.
I am agree with your opinion，it`s really amazing~!
I like the fact that at least the project “resembles” the profile of a chain of DNA, instead of being an exact representation of a DNA chain, as I’m sure lots of other newbie offices love to display.
Simple and elegant, artistic expression with an engineering insight.
the perspective from the entrance killed me…love it!
i got i got it check it out…… Roller coster + out door sculpture park. BAHAHHA all kidding aside its nice.
don’t tell me you disagree.
Calatrava? lol
“DNA as a metaphor for the vitality of the new city”
Give. Me. Strength.
one is elegant, two is a mess
Ladies and gentlemen Felix can eat one potato chip and walk away from the bag. What amazing re-strength !
An inspiration. Yes – Calatravesque !!
2:52 AM Mar 6th
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8:30 AM Mar 6th
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3:14 PM Mar 6th
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4:08 PM Mar 6th
RT @archdaily: In Progress: Xidayinggang Twin Bridge / CA-DESIGN http://archdai.ly/a7BkTq
11:42 PM Mar 6th
Stole this link from A. Gerber.
The best bridge: http://is.gd/9PyeG (maybe second best: http://is.gd/9PyQI)
5:02 PM Mar 8th
RT @NicholasPatten: In Progress: Xidayinggang Twin Bridge. http://bit.ly/9yNTfO
6:08 PM May 21st
http://tinyurl.com/248yrm8
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5:39 AM Jul 2nd
上海のXidayinggang Twin Bridge．うーん，この手の類のデザインの橋は今後さらに増えていくだろうな．http://bit.ly/dAVssR
6:31 AM Jul 2nd
RT @Motoi_Masubuchi: 上海のXidayinggang Twin Bridge．うーん，この手の類のデザインの橋は今後さらに増えていくだろうな．http://bit.ly/dAVssR
2:41 PM Sep 2nd
@dudakappel pra iluminar a mente (ou explodior os neoronios): http://www.archdaily.com/51596/in-progress-xidayinggang-twin-bridge-ca-design/