We recently published the project Railway Footbridge at Roche-sur-Yon, now our friends from HDA_Paris share with us the Turin Footbridge, that was constructed for the 2006 Winter Olympics.
About the competition, we know that the city of Turin hosted the 2006 winter Olympic games and had embarked on an extensive programme of construction of various venues and infrastructure for the games. The city took advantage of the infrastructure programme to incite urban renewal in the southern part of the city that has been affected by the economic downturn in the car industry. The Olympic village, situated in the disused Mercati Generali in the Lingotto district adjacent to the main railway lines entering the city from the south, is part of this new infrastructure and will contain housing and a logistics centre.
In this context, the footbridge by Hugh Dutton Associes (HDA), was exploited to provide a symbolic focal point for the entire village as well as provide a more ambitious role of a sculptural symbol, both for the Olympic Games and to represent the dynamism of the changing city’s regeneration of the Lingotto area beyond and after the event of the games.
