• PROJECT
    Jingjia Bridge
  • LOCATION
    Sur le fleuve Yongjiang, Ningbo, Chine
  • CLIENT
    Ville de Ningbo
  • PROJECT MANAGEMENT
    Marc Mimram Architecture et Ingénierie
  • DATES
    2005 – 2008
  • AREA
    Total length of 1,075 meters - Span of 276 meters
  • COST
    38 M€
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The city of Ningbo is reappropriating the other bank of the Yongjiang River, where industries and port facilities are located. This extension gives the opportunity for a new urbanization of the river bank, very different, around several preserved buildings rather than on a clean slate. The bridge is grounded in this asymmetry, it enhances it, accentuates it to find its structural reason. This is more than an asymmetrical cable-stayed bridge; it is also a balanced, triangulated landmark that magnifies the asymmetry of the city, along the river. This structure bears two cantilevered footbridges that descend from the deck to the park in a way that calls to mind the equilibrium of a catamaran lying at anchor on the water.