Friedrich Bayer Bridge
FRIEDRICH BAYER BRIDGE
LoebCapote Arquitetura e Urbanismo
ARCHITECTS
Loebcapote Arquitetura E Urbanismo
FOUNDATION
Appogeo Consultoria De Projetos
CONSTRUCTION
Jz Engenharia
SPDA
Jpinha Engenharia Ltda
CLIENT
Bayer
MANUFACTURERS
Fasa Fibra Ótica, Metalsoma, Orsometal, Skygarden Telhados
BAYER ENGINEERING TEAM
Erik Boettcher, Luis Laurini, Claudio Silva
ARCHITECTS IN CHARGE
Roberto Loeb And Luis Capote
EARTHWORK
Jz Engenharia
DESIGN TEAM
Damiano Leite, Chantal Longo
STRUCTURE
Grupo Dois Engenharia Ltda
COLLABORATORS
Nicola Pugliese, Francisco Cassimiro, Maria Carolina Simões, Mariana Gomes, Maria Clara Rodrigues, Cecília Mesquita, , Mariana Zazulla, Ludovica Leone, Carolina Vicentini, Camila Pauluk, Maria Pia Laloni, Marina Santos
PHOTOGRAPHS
Paulo Pereira, Leonardo Finotti, Pedro Kok
AREA
90 m²
YEAR
2013
LOCATION
BRAZIL
CATEGORY
PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE
Text description provided by architect.
The City of São Paulo has few bridges only for cyclists and pedestrians.
In front of the Bayer headquarters, the bridge is located where the Pinheiros river meets the Canal of Guarapiranga’s dam.
By connecting both sides of the river, the bicycle path parallel to the river is extended, and citizens, Bayer’s employees and the community around become closer to the metro station.
Besides connecting the two sides of the canal, the bridge generates a place to contemplate the landscape.
Two metallic islands over concrete pilotes surve as support for the 90 meters lenth bridge.
Those metallic islands are covered by vegetation, a reference to water-lilies, which were the conceptual reference for the project.
In order to maintain the canal navigability, the central span is movable: the two central parts of the linear structure rotate by using electrical motor.
