2011

ARGANZUELA FOOTBRIDGE

Madrid, Spain

Client : Madrid City Council

Site area: 10 ha

Footbridge dimensions: 150 m (section a) 128 m (section 2) long and 5 to 12 m wide

Made up of two metal cones, the infrastructure allows crossing the Manzanares River in Madrid.

“The park that hides some technical equipment from the buried highway has an irregular topography. Playing with this topography, the two cones meet on the top of a hill, and are offset to create a square that becomes a new entrance to the park.» Dominique Perrault