Arenas & Asociados

I ngeniería de Diseño MOVABLE BRIDGES

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POLICY AND PRACTICE OUR COMMITMENT TO QUALITY

Arenas & Asociados, founded by Professor J.J. Arenas, is specialized in signature urban bridges and special structures, and it continues to prove it over the years with its designs.

All of our work is dominated by the search of the highest level of formal expressivity and aesthetic values, based on the functionality and resistance of the chosen structural schemes. We
develop conceptual, engineering and architectural designs, from its first draft through the following stages of the project and project management, up to the end of site construction.

We are committed to achieve the maximum quality in every work we do, no matter the size of the challenge, and this exigency is reached only based on day to day continuous and persistent
work and faithfulness to the principles of our policy, which lie in the search of quality itself.
What is the meaning of quality when applied to bridges? The meaning of this word is a concept that necessarily rests on a broad base of structural soundness, and that is made up of
different purposes, like high internal integration of its members, clear geometry, good proportions, optimum internal rhythms, etc. These are internal values that a new construction must offer
by itself, but other essential values like its integration in the particular landscape, and the respectful consideration to the history and traditions of the site should be added from the very start.

Our design approach is based on the concept of Structural Architecture* defined by Professor Arenas, and implies the careful design of everyone its constituent members looking for their
bests from and performance, as the last and unavoidable task to be made. So, it is true that the beauty of the bridge must rest on its structural soundness, but at the same time, structural
soundness does not guarantee by itself any kind of aesthetic values in the finished work. The designer must search the beauty of the bridge with full consciousness, interest, perseverance, and
honesty. Honesty referring to the authenticity of the designed bridge.

As a result we firmly believe in the geometric pureness and the structural soundness derived from the practice of Structural architecture as the basic quality for a good design but also as the
tool helping us to offer projects with significant and original values, and finally, with authentic cultural and artistic significance.

*Structural Architecture
Art of conceiving and organizing engineering constructions in order to reach highest level of resisting functionality and formal expressiveness. The conditions for a project to be considered Structural Architecture (SA) are the authenticity and structural meaning of its
shapes, together with the aesthetical care for details. As SA if based in structural concepts and puts value into resisting mechanisms, the scientific education of the engineer seems indispensable to practice it.

Final sense of SA is to integrate the work engineers in the humanist culture in search for beauty and harmony, inserting itself in today's landscape and environmental consciousness stream. Honesty forbids justifying fancy caprice projects, or forced and unnecessarily
striking constructions, as results of SA. This conception demands, unquestionably, a superior project effort, and no routine. But, on the other hand, the resulting cost paid by society to construct the work conceived under this spirit, does not have to be greater than that
of works born out of projects undertaken with no particular excelling spirit.
Juan José Arenas de Pablo. June 2004.

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CONTENTS

MOVABLE BRIDGES OTHER MOVABLE BRIDGE PROPOSALS

4 Porta d’Europa bascule Bridge Barcelona, Spain 36 Santander Harbor Bridge Cantabria, Spain
10 Gran Malecón movable Bridge Barranquilla, Colombia 37 Valencia Harbor Bridge Valencia, Spain
16 El Ferdan swing railway Bridges Ismailia, Egypt 38 Zumaia Harbor Bridge Guipúzcoa, Spain
20 Tappström movable Bridge Stockholm, Sweden 39 Bridge over the Golden Horn Istanbul, Turkey
24 Leioa-Urbinaga tram lift Bridge Bilbao, Spain 40 Bridge over River Lee Cork, Ireland
30 Lutxana swing Bridge Bilbao, Spain

This brochure contents some of Arenas & Asociados’ signature movable bridge designs and collaborations.
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Porta d’Europa bascule Bridge

Conceptual & Detailed Design
Site Management
Barcelona, Spain

Owner: Port de Barcelona

Design: Arenas & Asociados (J.J. Arenas)
Contractor: UTE FCC - Guinovart
Construction year: 2000
Main span: 109.0 m
Deck width: 11.8 m
Vertical clearance in open position: Not limited

Plan View
Pier Geometry
in access viaducts
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Gran Malecón movable Bridge

Conceptual & Detailed Design
Barranquilla, Colombia
Owner: EDUBAR
Design: Arenas & Asociados
Contractor: JACUR & Cia. Opened
Construction year: On going Elevation
Main span: 35.0 m
Deck width: 27.8 m
Vertical clearance in open position: Not limited

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El Ferdan swing railway Bridges Cross Section

Independent Check
(existing bridge upgrading & new bridge)
Ismailia, Egypt

Owner: Government of Arab Republic of Egypt

Contractor:
Design+Build: CJV CMBM - Chengou Design and
Research Institute - SINOMA - SRBG
Consultant: Dorsch Gruppe (Arenas & Asociados)
Construction year: On going
Main span: 340.0 m
Deck width: 11.4 m
Vertical clearance in open position: Not limited

Plan View

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Tappström movable Bridge

Conceptual Design
Stockholm, Sweden

Owner: Swedish Trafikverket

Contractor: Tender pending
Design: IDOM (Arenas & Asociados)
Construction year: Tender pending
Main span: 24.1 m Plan View
Deck width: 20.15 m
Vertical clearance in open position: Not limited

Cross Section
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Leioa-Urbinaga tram lift Bridge

Conceptual & Detailed Design
Bilbao, Spain

Owner: ETS - Euskal Trenbide Sarea

Contractor: Tender pending
Design: Arenas & Asociados
Design competition year: 2012
Main span: 161.1 m
Deck width: 12.0 m Opened
Vertical clearance in open position: 48.25 m Elevation

Tower
Cross Section
Elevation
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Lutxana swing Bridge

Conceptual Design
Bilbao, Spain

Owner: Bilbao Ría 2000

Contractor: Tender pending
Design: Arenas & Asociados
Design competition year: 2000
Main span: 108 m Plan View
Deck width 27.5 m
Vertical clearance in open position: Not limited

Cross Rotation
Section Diaphragme
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Design competition proposal
Cantabria, Spain

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Valencia Harbor Bridge
Design competition proposal
Valencia, Spain
 Zumaia Harbor Bridge
Design competition proposal
Guipúzcoa, Spain

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Bridge over the Golden Horn
Design competition proposal
Istanbul, Turkey
 Bridge over River Lee
Design competition proposal
Cork, Ireland

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