CDOT Movable and Bascule Bridges Rehabilitation
An infrastructure precedent showcasing the integration of a massive steel bascule bridge with a monumental stone operator house in a dense urban river setting.
- What we like about this project
- Small punched windows and a tiny hipped roof on the massive stone operator house contrast scale.
Materials
- stone
- steel
- concrete
Visual identifiers
- bascule-bridge
- stone-bridge-house
- steel-truss
- riverfront-infrastructure
Style tags
- historic
- industrial
- civic
- infrastructure
Visual tags
- infrastructure
- historic
- urban-bridge
- waterfront
- heavy-engineering
- Geometry
- Linear bridge truss crosses diagonally with a massive rusticated stone bridge house anchoring the approach on the left.
- Structural guess
- Steel truss bascule superstructure bearing on heavy stone and concrete piers.
- Spatial scale
- Large-scale urban infrastructure bridging a wide river channel.
- Lighting
- Bright direct daylight casting deep shadows under the truss and operator house.
- Atmosphere
- Bright, industrial, and monumental along a dense urban waterway.
- Environmental context
- Urban riverfront flanked by massive historic multi-story commercial towers.
- Spatial experience
- The heavy stone operator cabin contrasts against the open structural steel truss spanning the urban waterway.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating diagonal truss members create a rhythmic cadence across the river span.
- Style reading
- Historic heavy engineering and civic architecture
- Program
- Movable bridge and river crossing infrastructure
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- stone, steel, concrete
- Visual identifiers
- bascule-bridge, stone-bridge-house, steel-truss, riverfront-infrastructure
- Style tags
- historic, industrial, civic, infrastructure
- Visual tags
- infrastructure, historic, urban-bridge, waterfront, heavy-engineering
- Geometry
- Linear bridge truss crosses diagonally with a massive rusticated stone bridge house anchoring the approach on the left.
- Structural guess
- Steel truss bascule superstructure bearing on heavy stone and concrete piers.
- Spatial scale
- Large-scale urban infrastructure bridging a wide river channel.
- Lighting
- Bright direct daylight casting deep shadows under the truss and operator house.
- Atmosphere
- Bright, industrial, and monumental along a dense urban waterway.
- Environmental context
- Urban riverfront flanked by massive historic multi-story commercial towers.
- Spatial experience
- The heavy stone operator cabin contrasts against the open structural steel truss spanning the urban waterway.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating diagonal truss members create a rhythmic cadence across the river span.
- Style reading
- Historic heavy engineering and civic architecture
- Program
- Movable bridge and river crossing infrastructure
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture