FOOTBRIDGES: Construction Design History

Description

The influence on the interplay of technical progress, imagination and functional variety in footbridges are different from those affecting large-scale bridges. This fact has resulted in an exhaustible variety of distinctive design, as is beautifully illustrated by the selection of footbridges shown in this book. Essays clearly explain the technical aspects and the aesthetic potential of different structure designs.
Footbridges contains detailed presentations of 90 european bridges, with text, comprehensive and detail plans, and photographs taken especially for the volume. With projects by Arup, JA1/4rg Conzett, Foster and Partners, Happold, Schlaich Bergermann and Partners, Wilkinson Eyre, Jiri Strasky and others. The examples are organized chronologically in thematically focused chapters: lightweight bridges, moving bridges, covered bridges, taut-ribbon suspension bridges, arch bridges, etc.
For those whose curiosity is aroused by the insight given into this type of bridge building, a compilation of 120 more footbridges, listed by location, provide a starting point for further investigation.

CONTENTS

• Characterization of the Footbridge: Construction, Form, History
• Parameters and Structural Design
• Retrospective: Bigger, Faster, Further – Traffic, Architect and Engineer
• Construction as an Ethical Maxim: Prestressed Concrete Post-War and the Prohibition of Ornament
• Taking Lightness to the Limit: Wafer thin Stays and Filigree Cable Bridges
• Stress Ribbon Bridges
• Dynamics, Vibrations
• Curved Bridges
• Experiments in Construction: Structural Hype and its Effects since the 1970s
• European Examples
• Urban Renovation: Pedestrians Reconquer Lost Terrain
• The Bridge as Interior Space: Protection from Wind and Weather
• Covered and Enclosed Bridges
• The Call for Symbols: Millennium Bridges Attract Attention as “Icons” and “Events”
• Play Stations: Folding, Tilting, Lifting, Turning – Bridge Designers Require Mechanical Engineers
• Loadbearing Structures for Moveable Bridges
• Landscape, Gardens: Bridges as Garden Ornaments – Parks and Landscapes
• Footbridges: 120 European Examples

255 pages, color ills / 25 x 30 cm / English