Montefiore Footbridge

In the expansion project of the "Montefiore" shopping center in Cesena {Italy) there is also a new footbridge that connects the entrance of the new building with the current outdoor parking.

Both the morphological shape and its particular location within the new shopping center are particularly interesting since this footbridge is functional and efficient in the flow of people who attend this place.

The structural system that makes up this connective organism is characterized by a serial aggregation of elements, which in their compositional definition give a strong organicity to the repetitive sequence of forms that the organism is made up, all identical to each other. Organicity that is strongly accentuated by the particular aggregative spatiality of the set of plates and nodes, inclined to each other and in space, compared to an elementary and slavish linear succession of elements perpendicular to each other. A further element of "visual strength" of the construction system consists of bolting, compared to a more anonymous welding; that is for all the elements that contribute to the realization of the structural nodes in correspondence with the interpenetration fittings between the different morphologies of the plates.

The main structural system is superimposed by a collaborating floor consisting of a partially permeable-to­ light grating that, by filtering on the underlying elements, contributes to the perception of the organism in its entire development as composed of a diversified set of "chiaroscuro" that enhances the complexity of the aggregative design of the forms.

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