Tabiat Pedestrian Bridge Tehran, Iranian Steel Architecture, Structure, Highway, Building, Images
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.
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.

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.

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

The result is a spatial structure large enough to create an inhabitable arc...