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PROJECT
Amédée Saint-Germain Armagnac Bridge -
LOCATION
Bordeaux -
CLIENT
Bordeaux Euratlantique -
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Marc Mimram Architecture et Ingénierie, Artelia -
DATES
2013 – 2022 -
AREA
Crossing of 196 m, viaduct of 150 m, ramp on the Amédée side of 195 m, ramp on the Armagnac side of 185 m, span of 66 m -
COST
34 M€ - Download the project
Although Bordeaux Saint Jean station, as well as the entire sector lying south of the station and alongside the tracks, has for a long time remained on the edge of the city, it has recently been seen as a new hub providing significant opportunities for property development. The proposed bridges are an essential lever for urban regeneration and will help launch a new urban dynamic that allows people to live close to urban infrastructures and brings the two sides of the river closer together.
Here, the city is generous because it resolves its own fragmentation, offering calm public spaces and providing connections while creating new locales. We are eager to free up the ground under the bridges and make their undersides and supports as attractive as possible; their upper surface will be treated as a public space, a balcony overlooking a new urban landscape. The sequences of views as you cross the bridge enhances the project, both interacting with it and enriching it. The bridge’s two arches, complemented by pierced stiffened beams, create a unique and meaningful silhouette signifying the transition from one riverbank to the other and forming a landmark for the entire district—both a sign of identification and an acknowledgment of this new polarity.