Assut de l'Or Bridge

Assut de l'Or Bridge Pont de l'Assut de l'Or (Valencian) Puente de l'Assut de l'Or (Spanish)
Side view of the Assut de l'Or Bridge with L'Agora in the background
Coordinates	39°27′17.3″N 00°20′58.7″W
Carries	six vehicular traffic lanes, two tram lanes, and two pedestrian cycling lanes
Crosses	Túria Gardens (former riverbed of Túria River)
Locale	Valencia, Spain
Characteristics
Design	cable-stayed bridge with a backward curved pylon
Total length	180 metres
Height	125 metres (making it the highest point of the city)
No. of spans	one with 29 cable stays
History
Architect	Santiago Calatrava
Construction cost	59.9 million Euros
Inaugurated	12/12/2008
Location

The Assut de l'Or Bridge (Valencian: Pont de l'Assut de l'Or, Spanish: Puente de l'Assut de l'Or)^[a] is a white single-pylon cable-stayed bridge in the City of Arts and Sciences in Valencia, Spain, designed by Valencian architect and civil engineer Santiago Calatrava and completed in December 2008. The name l'Assut de l'Or is Valencian for the Dam of the Gold and refers to a dam that was located nearby.^[b] Calatrava called it the Serreria Bridge.^[1]

Design

The bridge crosses the Túria Gardens in southeast Valencia, Spain near the east end of the City of Arts and Sciences complex.^[2] Its design is a variant of Santiago Calatrava's 1992 design of a cantilever spar cable-stayed bridge in Seville, Spain. In the Serreria bridge, the pylon is curved backward and back-stayed to concrete counterweights in the roadway. The aesthetic effect of the Serreria bridge arises in part from the curved pylon and the 29 parallel cables supporting the bridge deck, accented at night by spotlighting of the cables and the pylon. The bridge deck has two carriageways, three lanes each for cars and one additional lane for a tramway, and a carriageway for only pedestrian and cycle traffic along the middle spine of the deck by the cable stays.

Gallery

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  Assut de l'Or Bridge at night
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  Front cable stays
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  Front cable stays at night
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  Backstays

See also

• Samuel Beckett Bridge in Dublin, Ireland, in which the forward curved pylon is also back-stayed
• The Erasmusbrug in the Netherlands, another single pylon cable-stayed bridge in which the pylon is back-stayed
• Montolivet Bridge - another bridge in the City of Arts and Sciences designed by Santiago Calatrava

Notes

1. Pronunciation, Valencian: [ˈpɔnd de laˈsud ˈdɔɾ], Spanish: [ˈpwente ðe laˈsuð ˈðoɾ].
2. Locally it is referred to as El Perniler (The Ham Holder) or Pont de l'Arpa (The Harp Bridge) in Valencian. Spanish: El Jamonero (The Ham Holder) or Puente del Arpa (The Harp Bridge).

References

1. Calatrava, Santiago. "Serreria Bridge". calatrava.com. Retrieved 3 June 2016.
2. Info loko site on City of Arts and Sciences.

External links

• L´Assut de l´Or Bridge (Serreria Bridge), Valencia, Spain (2009), Luis Viñuela y José Martínez Salcedo