Project

Bridge for Puerto Rico

1996

Over Rio Grande de Loiza, Puerto Rico

Civic, Designed , Design Competition, Not built

International competion entry for bridge over Rio Grande de Loiza, proposing a precast, pierced-concrete, long span shell design, 500 meter span.

Contents

Construction Innovations 1 Items

Bridge for Puerto Rico: Precast, pierced-concrete, long span shell design 1996

Construction System, Reinforced Concrete

A highly innovative structure, designed to be made out of prestressed light-weight pierced concrete shells, for a 500 meter span; extensive finite-element simulations were run to ensure its high structural strength.

Photographs 3 Items

References

Scientific Research 1 Items

Wholeness as a Tangible and Objective Quality: The Mirror of the Self

In any process of design or making, the next step which is most structure-enhancing, is that step which most intensifies the feeling of the emerging whole. What ultimately matters in this process is that the work produced generates feeling in ...

Books 1 Items

The Nature of Order - An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe. Book Four - The Luminous Ground 2004

“The Luminous Ground” is the fourth and last volume of “The Nature of Order” series. In this volume, Alexander attempts to show the cosmological underpinning of the nature of order. The book has two goals. First, to show that the ...

Book Chapters 1 Items

Chapter 10. Pleasing Yourself, 12 / A Significantly Large Structure

Publication,

Photographs 1 Items

Bridge for Puerto Rico - Precast, pierced-concrete, long span shell design: Photograph of painting 01/01/1996

Construction Innovation, Drawing

Framed photograph of a pastel painting by Christopher Alexander, depicting a view of the bridge named “The Driving Experience: The View from the Road”.