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Footbridge in Evry

This is a project by DVVD and it is located at Evry, France. Project's program: Replace the old footbridge with a work of art that offers better user safety. There are eight images for Footbridge in Evry.

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Project details

Project name: Footbridge in Evry
Location: Evry, France
Program: Replace the old footbridge with a work of art that offers better user safety
Area: Span: 70 m
Year: Completion: 2007
More details: Cost: 800,000 €
Client: AFTRP
Project by: DVVD
Team: Design Team: Daniel Vaniche, Vincent Dominguez, Bertrand Potel
Others: Contractor: Baudin-Châteauneuf

Project images

Designer's statement

Due to the separation of pedestrian and vehicular traffic, bridges are particularly significant landscapes in public space in Evry. One key requirement quickly emerged: the need to prevent objects being thrown onto vehicles beneath the footbridge.

At the same time as offering better user safety, we also wanted the bridge to be transparent and fun. We combined these architectural intentions and technical considerations to create a steel structure forming a volume which encompasses pedestrians. At the same time, we were careful not to create any sense of being caged in.

The loadbearing structure consists of an array of round tubes echoing the rotation of DNA across the entire span of the footbridge. Each tube makes a quarter turn per section, successively becoming part of the load-bearing structure beneath the decking, the load-bearing structure beneath the anti-vandal mesh on the sides, and an aesthetic element integrating the lights above the pedestrians.

Winner of the General Public Award for Contemporary Architecture in Greater Paris, 2005-2010
Nominated for the French Architecture Prize Equerre d’Argent 2007-2008