CLIENT: Expoagua Zaragoza 2008
ARCHITECTS: Design Zaha Hadid with Patrik Schumacher
Project Architect: Manuela Gatto
Project team: Fabian Hecker Matthias Baer, Federico Dunkelberg, Maria Jose Mendoza, Jose’ Monfa, Marta Rodriguez, Diego Rosales, Guillermo Ruiz, Lucio Santos, Hala Sheikh, Marcela Spadaro, Anat Stern
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PROGRAM: Interactive exhibition area focusing on water sustainability, integrating a pedestrian bridge
to perform as gateway for the Zaragoza Expo 2008
CONSULTANTS: Engineers ARUP Associates
Cost Consultants: ARUP Associates / IDOM
Artists: Golan Levin and Zach Liebermann, Christian Moeller
SIZE: Total Surface 6415 m2, Pedestrian Bridge 2500 m2.
Exhibition Surface 3915 m2
The Zaragoza Bridge Pavilion is organized around 4 main objects, or “pods” that perform both as structural elements and as spatial enclosures. The Bridge Pavilion design stems from the detailed examination and research into the potential of a diamond shaped section – which offers both structural and programming properties. As in the case of space-frame structures, a diamond section represents a rational way if distributing forces along a surface
Underneath the floor plate, a resulting triangular pocket space can be used to run utilities. Floors inside each pod are located at the Expo principal levels: +201.5m (the soffit of the bridge is at +200m, flood protection minimum level of the Ebro River at the location of the Bridge Pavilion) +203m, +206m and +207.5m for the upper level
The diamond section has also been extruded along a slightly curved path. The extrusion of this rhombus section along different paths has generated the four separate ‘pods’ of the Bridge Pavilion. The stacking and interlocking of these truss elements (the ‘pods’), satisfies two specific criteria: optimizing the structural system, and allowing for a natural differentiation of the interiors, where each pod corresponds to a specific exhibition space
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