Kurilpa Bridge
Today Mrs Mail and I walked around and over the new Kurilpa Bridge which is on the western side of the city centre, and was officially opened last weekend.
I haven't decided if I love it yet, as it is an unusual design. This bridge is a special lightweight design, that gets its structural rigidity from the network of cables and stays that must have involved a lot of mathematics. You can see one of the main support beams here going alongside the footway. The footway is basically suspended between these two beams, and I was quite surprised at how little apparnet structure there is to hold it up.
This bridge is just a pedestrian and bicycle river crossing, and cost $63,000,000. that is a lot of zeros and more than twice the cost of the previous pedestrian bridge.
See below for some design details.
The design is sculptural in appearance, with a network of steel masts seemingly held in suspension by a delicate cross stitching of high wire tensioned cables
The bridge is a multiple-mast, cable-stay structure based on principles of tensegrity, an architectural and engineering system in which the structural integrity is a synergy between balanced tension and compression components. This produces a lightweight yet strong and stable structure.
The new bridge presents an artistic array of cables and flying struts recalling the ropes and spars of sailing ships and boats.
Goodby to Lines and Angles Friday - Modern Theme
Kurilpa Bridge
Today Mrs Mail and I walked around and over the new Kurilpa Bridge which is on the western side of the city centre, and was officially opened last weekend.
I haven't decided if I love it yet, as it is an unusual design. This bridge is a special lightweight design, that gets its structural rigidity from the network of cables and stays that must have involved a lot of mathematics. You can see one of the main support beams here going alongside the footway. The footway is basically suspended between these two beams, and I was quite surprised at how little apparnet structure there is to hold it up.
This bridge is just a pedestrian and bicycle river crossing, and cost $63,000,000. that is a lot of zeros and more than twice the cost of the previous pedestrian bridge.
See below for some design details.
The design is sculptural in appearance, with a network of steel masts seemingly held in suspension by a delicate cross stitching of high wire tensioned cables
The bridge is a multiple-mast, cable-stay structure based on principles of tensegrity, an architectural and engineering system in which the structural integrity is a synergy between balanced tension and compression components. This produces a lightweight yet strong and stable structure.
The new bridge presents an artistic array of cables and flying struts recalling the ropes and spars of sailing ships and boats.
Goodby to Lines and Angles Friday - Modern Theme