Tabiat Pedestrian Bridge by Diba Tensile Architecture
12/10/2016.
2016 Aga Khan Architecture Awards [Tehran] Iran
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An infrastructure that connects two parks has become a popular urban public space.
Tabiat Pedestrian Bridge by Diba Tensile Architecture / Leila Araghian and Alireza Behzadi. Photograph © Aga Khan Trust for Culture / Barzin Baharlouie
Tabiat Pedestrian Bridge by Diba Tensile Architecture / Leila Araghian and Alireza Behzadi. Photograph © Aga Khan Trust for Culture / Barzin Baharlouie
Tabiat Pedestrian Bridge by Diba Tensile Architecture / Leila Araghian and Alireza Behzadi. Photograph © Aga Khan Trust for Culture / Barzin Baharlouie
Tabiat Pedestrian Bridge by Diba Tensile Architecture / Leila Araghian and Alireza Behzadi. Photograph © Aga Khan Trust for Culture / Barzin Baharlouie
Tabiat Pedestrian Bridge by Diba Tensile Architecture / Leila Araghian and Alireza Behzadi. Photograph © Aga Khan Trust for Culture / Barzin Baharlouie
Tabiat Pedestrian Bridge by Diba Tensile Architecture / Leila Araghian and Alireza Behzadi. Photograph © Aga Khan Trust for Culture / Barzin Baharlouie
Tabiat Pedestrian Bridge by Diba Tensile Architecture / Leila Araghian and Alireza Behzadi. Photograph © Aga Khan Trust for Culture / Barzin Baharlouie
Tabiat Pedestrian Bridge by Diba Tensile Architecture / Leila Araghian and Alireza Behzadi. Photograph © Aga Khan Trust for Culture / Barzin Baharlouie
Tabiat Pedestrian Bridge by Diba Tensile Architecture / Leila Araghian and Alireza Behzadi. Photograph © Aga Khan Trust for Culture / Barzin Baharlouie
Tabiat Pedestrian Bridge by Diba Tensile Architecture / Leila Araghian and Alireza Behzadi. Photograph © Aga Khan Trust for Culture / Barzin Baharlouie
Tabiat Pedestrian Bridge by Diba Tensile Architecture / Leila Araghian and Alireza Behzadi. Photograph © Aga Khan Trust for Culture / Barzin Baharlouie
Tabiat Pedestrian Bridge by Diba Tensile Architecture / Leila Araghian and Alireza Behzadi. Photograph © Aga Khan Trust for Culture / Barzin Baharlouie
Tabiat Pedestrian Bridge by Diba Tensile Architecture / Leila Araghian and Alireza Behzadi. Photograph © Aga Khan Trust for Culture / Barzin Baharlouie
Tabiat Pedestrian Bridge by Diba Tensile Architecture / Leila Araghian and Alireza Behzadi. Photograph © Aga Khan Trust for Culture / Barzin Baharlouie
Location. Tabiat Pedestrian Bridge by Diba Tensile Architecture / Leila Araghian and Alireza Behzadi. Image courtesy of Diba Tensile Architecture.
Project's diagrams. Tabiat Pedestrian Bridge by Diba Tensile Architecture / Leila Araghian and Alireza Behzadi. Image courtesy of Diba Tensile Architecture.
Floor. Tabiat Pedestrian Bridge by Diba Tensile Architecture / Leila Araghian and Alireza Behzadi. Image courtesy of Diba Tensile Architecture.
Floor. Tabiat Pedestrian Bridge by Diba Tensile Architecture / Leila Araghian and Alireza Behzadi. Image courtesy of Diba Tensile Architecture.
Section. Tabiat Pedestrian Bridge by Diba Tensile Architecture / Leila Araghian and Alireza Behzadi. Image courtesy of Diba Tensile Architecture.
Section. Tabiat Pedestrian Bridge by Diba Tensile Architecture / Leila Araghian and Alireza Behzadi. Image courtesy of Diba Tensile Architecture.
Section. Tabiat Pedestrian Bridge by Diba Tensile Architecture / Leila Araghian and Alireza Behzadi. Image courtesy of Diba Tensile Architecture.
Section. Tabiat Pedestrian Bridge by Diba Tensile Architecture / Leila Araghian and Alireza Behzadi. Image courtesy of Diba Tensile Architecture.
Section. Tabiat Pedestrian Bridge by Diba Tensile Architecture / Leila Araghian and Alireza Behzadi. Image courtesy of Diba Tensile Architecture.
Section. Tabiat Pedestrian Bridge by Diba Tensile Architecture / Leila Araghian and Alireza Behzadi. Image courtesy of Diba Tensile Architecture.
Tabiat Pedestrian Bridge by Diba Tensile Architecture / Leila Araghian and Alireza Behzadi. Image courtesy of Diba Tensile Architecture.
Tabiat Pedestrian Bridge by Diba Tensile Architecture / Leila Araghian and Alireza Behzadi. Image courtesy of Diba Tensile Architecture.
Tabiat Pedestrian Bridge by Diba Tensile Architecture / Leila Araghian and Alireza Behzadi. Image courtesy of Diba Tensile Architecture.
Tabiat Pedestrian Bridge by Diba Tensile Architecture / Leila Araghian and Alireza Behzadi. Image courtesy of Diba Tensile Architecture.
Tabiat Pedestrian Bridge by Diba Tensile Architecture / Leila Araghian and Alireza Behzadi. Image courtesy of Diba Tensile Architecture.
Tabiat Pedestrian Bridge by Diba Tensile Architecture / Leila Araghian and Alireza Behzadi. Image courtesy of Diba Tensile Architecture.
Tabiat Pedestrian Bridge by Diba Tensile Architecture / Leila Araghian and Alireza Behzadi. Image courtesy of Diba Tensile Architecture.
Tabiat Pedestrian Bridge by Diba Tensile Architecture / Leila Araghian and Alireza Behzadi. Photograph © Aga Khan Trust for Culture / Barzin Baharlouie
Tabiat Pedestrian Bridge by Diba Tensile Architecture / Leila Araghian and Alireza Behzadi. Photograph © Aga Khan Trust for Culture / Barzin Baharlouie
Tabiat Pedestrian Bridge by Diba Tensile Architecture / Leila Araghian and Alireza Behzadi. Photograph © Aga Khan Trust for Culture / Barzin Baharlouie
Tabiat Pedestrian Bridge by Diba Tensile Architecture / Leila Araghian and Alireza Behzadi. Photograph © Aga Khan Trust for Culture / Barzin Baharlouie
This project work of Diba Tensile Architecture, - Leila Araghian and Alireza Behzadi - has been awarded with the 2016 Aga Khan Architecture Award. The three-dimensional wireframe bridge is located in Tehran, capital of Iran, with a length of 270 meters that connect two public parks in the city.
The architects first conceived the two-to-three level, 270-metre-long curved pedestrian bridge of varying width, a complex steel structure featuring a dynamic three-dimensional truss with two continuous deck levels that sits on three tree shape columns, with a third where the truss meets the column branches.
It was an imaginative leap beyond the basic competition brief of designing a bridge to connect two parks separated by a highway in northern Tehran, without blocking the view to the Alborz Mountains.
The structural elements are based on a latent geometrical order rotated and repeated in three dimensions. The result is a spatial structure large enough to create an inhabitable architectural space, where people congregate, eat and rest rather than just pass through.
Multiple paths in each park were created that would lead people on to the bridge. Seating, green spaces and kiosks encourage people to linger on a site where greenery has been preserved by the minimal footprint of the bridge, whose curve offers a variety of viewing perspectives.
The architects first conceived the two-to-three level, 270-metre-long curved pedestrian bridge of varying width, a complex steel structure featuring a dynamic three-dimensional truss with two continuous deck levels that sits on three tree shape columns, with a third where the truss meets the column branches.
It was an imaginative leap beyond the basic competition brief of designing a bridge to connect two parks separated by a highway in northern Tehran, without blocking the view to the Alborz Mountains.
The structural elements are based on a latent geometrical order rotated and repeated in three dimensions. The result is a spatial structure large enough to create an inhabitable architectural space, where people congregate, eat and rest rather than just pass through.
Multiple paths in each park were created that would lead people on to the bridge. Seating, green spaces and kiosks encourage people to linger on a site where greenery has been preserved by the minimal footprint of the bridge, whose curve offers a variety of viewing perspectives.
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Architects.-
Diba Tensile Architecture / Leila Araghian, Sahar Yasaei. Design Associate.- Alireza Behzadi
Client.-
Nosazi Abbassabad Co.
Location.-
Tehran, Iran
Size.-
Bridge length: 270 m; Site area: 46'000 m2
Dates.-
Design: 2009-2010
Completion: 2014
Leila Araghian
Leila Araghian, (Persian: لیلا عراقیان; born in 1983), is an Iranian architect. She has a Master of Architecture degree from the University of British Columbia, where she won the UBC Architecture Alumni Henry Elder Prize. She previously studied architecture in Iran, at Shahid Beheshti University. In 2005, Araghian co-founded Diba Tensile Architecture, a company specialising in the design, manufacture and installation of membrane structures. She was chief architect and designer of the Tabiat Bridge in Tehran, a pedestrian bridge opened in late 2014 which has won several prizes.
