product supplied
500 ml. of Ninfa balustrade with built-in LEDs switched on by a passage sensor.
realization
Permasteelisa SpA
The Bridge of Peace, which crosses the Mtkvari river in Tbilisi, is a connecting infrastructure between the ancient district of Bericoni and that of Rikhe, the subject of a recent redevelopment project.
The structure stands at a point where the river divides the urban centre, creating a fracture between the historic core to the west and the park to the east, from which the new Tbilisi begins. Conceived as a monument to the dialogue between the present and the past, it consists of a pedestrian walkway and a roof with a sinusoidal profile which, with only four supports on the banks of the river, seems almost suspended.
The walkway has a double access, from the two banks on the ridges and from the riversides via four stairways. The roof, the synthesis of a fruitful dialogue between architecture and engineering, appears as a single transparent and luminous membrane made up of a structure of steel tubes and triangular glass elements. The upper profile consists of two arches with lateral ends ascending to the central arch.
The transversal arches are generated by the same parabola and positioned at the same distance from each other along the ridge line.
The lower profile, characterized by a more accentuated curvature than the upper one, is instead generated by the connection of five arches. At the center of the bridge a "square" is created from which citizens and tourists can enjoy a privileged point of view over the city. The bridge, which is visible from the President's Palace, the Cathedral and the peripheral districts along the valley, thus acts as a perceptive but above all symbolic reference, placing itself as an ideal place of connection between different people, cultures and ideological positions.
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