Assut de l'Or Bridge

The Assut de l'Or Bridge (Valencian: Pont de l'Assut de l'Or, Spanish: Puente de la Presa del Oro) is a white single-pylon cable-stayed bridge in the City of Arts and Sciences in Valencia, Spain, designed by Valencian architect and civil engineer Santiago Calatrava and completed in December 2008. The name l'Assut de l'Or is Valencian for the Dam of the Gold and refers to a dam that was located nearby, although locally it is referred to as El Jamonero (The Ham Holder) or Pont de l'Arpa, Spanish: Puente del Arpa (The Harp Bridge). Calatrava called it the Serreria Bridge.[1]

Assut de l'Or Bridge (Serreria Bridge)

Pont de l'Assut de l'Or
The Assut de l'Or Bridge in Valencia, Spain
Side view of the Assut de l'Or Bridge with L'Agora in background
Coordinates39°27′17.3″N 00°20′58.7″W
Carriessix vehicular traffic lanes, two tram lanes, and two pedestrian cycling lanes
CrossesTurìa Gardens (former riverbed of Turia River)
LocaleValencia, Spain
Characteristics
Designcable-stayed bridge with a backward curved pylon
Total length180 metres
Height125 metres (making it the highest point of the city)
No. of spansone with 29 cable stays
History
ArchitectSantiago Calatrava
Construction cost59.9 million Euros
Inaugurated12/12/2008
Location

Design

The bridge crosses the Turia Gardens in southeast Valencia, Spain near the east end of the City of Arts and Sciences complex.[2] Its design is a variant of Santiago Calatrava's 1992 design of a cantilever spar cable-stayed bridge in Seville, Spain. In the Serreria bridge, the pylon is curved backward and back-stayed to concrete counterweights in the roadway. The aesthetic effect of the Serreria bridge arises in part from the curved pylon and the 29 parallel cables supporting the bridge deck, accented at night by spot lighting of the cables and the pylon. The bridge deck has two carriageways, three lanes each for cars and one additional lane for a tramway, and a carriageway for only pedestrian and cycle traffic along the middle spine of the deck by the cable stays.

  • Assut de l'Or Bridge at night
    Assut de l'Or Bridge at night
  • Front cable stays
    Front cable stays
  • Front cable stays at night
    Front cable stays at night
  • Backstays
    Backstays

See also
  • Samuel Beckett Bridge in Dublin, Ireland, in which the forward curved pylon is also back stayed
  • The Erasmusbrug in the Netherlands, another single pylon cable-stayed bridge in which the pylon is back stayed

References
  1. Calatrava, Santiago. "Serreria Bridge". calatrava.com. Retrieved 3 June 2016.
  2. Info loko site on City of Arts and Sciences.
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