Pierre-Simon Girard footbridge, Écocité development zone on L’Ourcq Canal, in Bobigny

The Pierre-Simon Girard footbridge crosses the L’Ourcq canal in the north of Paris. While being 5 metres above the canal it has been globally designed as a crossover adapted for persons with reduced mobility with an ensuing wide layout. The “backbone” of the structure comprises a steel box beam associated to a guy-wire supported tower dissymmetrically positioned in relation to the apron. The box apron has the task of taking the torsion resulting from the geometry of the mechanism and the guy-wire supported tower the bending resulting from the span. Dividing up load bearing enables the column of the apron to stand out and produces the effect of a slender structure over the void.

Type

Bridge and footbridge

Materials and construction systems

Concrete and prestressed concrete, Steel frame

Location

France, Bobigny (FR-93)

Assignment

Structural design stages

Architect

Christian Devillers, CE A+I Jean-Marc Weill

Customer

Sequano Amenagement

Amount of work

1.6 M€

Photo credits

Agence Christian Devillers, C&E

Completion date

2014