Puente of Mujer

The Puente of Mujer (in French Bridge of the Woman ), drawn by the Spanish Architect Santiago Calatrava, is its single work in Latin America. It is on the dock n° III of Puerto Madero, with Buenos Aires, in Argentine.

It is about a 160 meters length pedestrian bridge on 5 meters broad divided into three sections: two fixed sections out of the two banks of the dock and a mobile section which turns on a conical white concrete pillar, and allows in less than two minutes the passage of boats. This center section is supported by a aguille steel with cement spine 39 meters height. The steel needle is laid out in diagonal, and of it hang, with the manner of one Suspended bridge, the cables which support the revolving section.

When the mobile section of the bridge affectué its rotation, it will rest on a support laid out in an axis perpendicular to that of the work.

The cost of this construction was of a few six million dollars which were offered by a patron, the contractor Alberto González. It was carried out with Vitoria, in Spain, by the Urssa company.

It was inaugurated the December 20th 2001, with most extremely of the Argentinian Economic crisis doubled of an institutional crisis. So the inauguration passed unperceived through the majority of the inhabitants of the city, the porteños .

External bonds

Seen satellite of the bridge on WikiMapia
Principal technological and constructive aspects
Images of Puente of Mujer
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