Conceptual Bridge Design beyond Signature Structures

摘要

The present paper outlines important aspects of the collaboration in interdisciplinary bridge designrnteams, using some of the authors’ recent successful projects as illustrative examples. It is emphasizedrnthat design competitions have significantly contributed to the fact that in Switzerland –rncontrary to international tendencies – hardly any sculptural, inefficient and excessively expensivernbridges were built over the past decades, while aesthetic criteria and innovative approaches arernappreciated even in the design of minor bridges and civil engineering structures.