Tabiat Pedestrian Bridge, Tehran

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Tabiat Pedestrian Bridge, Tehran

Complex Steel Structure Architecture in Iran – design by Architects Diba Tensile Architecture / Leila Araghian, Alireza Behzadi

3 Oct 2016

Tabiat Pedestrian Bridge in Tehran

Location: Tehran, Iran

Photos: AKTC / Barzin Baharlouie

A multi-level bridge spanning a busy motorway has created a dynamic new urban space.

Architect: Diba Tensile Architecture / Leila Araghian, Alireza Behzadi

Abu Dhabi, UAE, 3rd of October 2016 – The winners of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture were announced today in a ceremony in Abu Dhabi.

One of the 6 winning projects:

Tabiat Pedestrian Bridge, Tehran

Infrastructure that connects two parks has become a popular urban space.

Tabiat Pedestrian Bridge Tehran

The architects first conceived the two-to-three level, 270-metre-long curved pedestrian bridge of varying width, a complex steel structure featuring a dynamic three-dimensional truss with two continuous deck levels that sits on three tree shape columns, with a third where the truss meets the column branches.

Tabiat Pedestrian Bridge Tehran

Tabiat Pedestrian Bridge Tehran

Tabiat Pedestrian Bridge Tehran

It was an imaginative leap beyond the basic competition brief of designing a bridge to connect two parks separated by a highway in northern Tehran, without blocking the view to the Alborz Mountains.

Tabiat Pedestrian Bridge Tehran

Tabiat Pedestrian Bridge Tehran

Tabiat Pedestrian Bridge Tehran

The structural elements are based on a latent geometrical order rotated and repeated in three dimensions.

Tabiat Pedestrian Bridge Tehran

Tabiat Pedestrian Bridge Tehran

Tabiat Pedestrian Bridge Tehran

The result is a spatial structure large enough to create an inhabitable architectural space, where people congregate, eat and rest rather than just pass through. Multiple paths in each park were created that would lead people on to the bridge.

Tabiat Pedestrian Bridge Tehran

Tabiat Pedestrian Bridge Tehran

Tabiat Pedestrian Bridge Tehran

Seating, green spaces and kiosks encourage people to linger on a site where greenery has been preserved by the minimal footprint of the bridge, whose curve offers a variety of viewing perspectives.

Tabiat Pedestrian Bridge Tehran

Tabiat Pedestrian Bridge Tehran

Award Cycle: 2014-2016 Cycle
Status: Recipient
Location: Tehran, Iran
Client: Nosazi Abbassabad Co.
Architect: Diba Tensile Architecture / Leila Araghian, Alireza Behzadi
Design: 2009-10

Tabiat Pedestrian Bridge Tehran

Tabiat Pedestrian Bridge Tehran

Size: Bridge length: 270 m; Site area: 46’000 m2
Completed: 2014

Tabiat Pedestrian Bridge Tehran

Tabiat Pedestrian Bridge Tehran

Tabiat Pedestrian Bridge Tehran

Tabiat Pedestrian Bridge Tehran

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Tabiat Pedestrian Bridge Tehran, an Aga Khan Award for Architecture Winner in 2016 information from Aga Khan Award

Aga Khan Award for Architecture Winner in 2016

Location: Tehran, Iran

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