Footbridges in Meydan One Mall in Dubai, UAE
| Author(s): |
Enrique Goberna
(Director, schlaich bergermann partner, Madrid, Spain)
Knut Stockhusen (Managing Director, schlaich bergermann partner, Stuttgart, Germany) Daniel Gebreiter (Conceptual Design Lead, schlaich bergermann partner, Stuttgart, Germany) Matteo Dini (Project Manager Engineer, schlaich bergermann partner, Stuttgart, Germany) |
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| Medium: | conference paper |
| Language(s): | English |
| Conference: | Footbridge 2022: Creating Experience, Madrid, Spain, 07-09 September 2022 |
| Published in: | Footbridge Madrid 2022 - Creating Experience |
| DOI: | 10.24904/footbridge2022.093 |
| Abstract: |
A big commercial and entertainment complex called Meydan One, designed by the American architectural firm AE7, is currently under construction in Dubai, UAE. The complex consists of a big shopping mall surrounded by different towers for offices and hotels, a ski slope, gardens with lagoons, etc. The mall has a dominant long and wide corridor called the “canyon” which is crossed by 7 steel footbridges, the subject of this paper. The bridges share aesthetic traits amongst another, as well as with the roof over the canyon, creating a unified whole. The paper outlines the mall as the context of the footbridges. Their design and structure are then explained with focus on how a single structural system is adapted to different situations. The paper concludes with describing the sophisticated erection sequence necessitated by the use of steel plates as tensile members. |
| Keywords: |
aesthetics stress ribbon dynamics extradosed Construction sequence steel structures
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| License: | This creative work is copyrighted. The copyright holder(s) do(es) not grant any usage rights other than viewing and downloading the work for personal use. Further copying or publication requires the permission of the copyright holder(s). |
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