Dambrug
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Dambrug Setting
Client Deventer City Council Designers Gerhard Nijenhuis Ivo Mulders Teun Teeuwisse Completed 2004 Size l=55 m; b=25.5 m Building costs € 485,849 Price per m² € 346 approx. Load-bearing capacity LC600
This bridge dam is located on Deventer’s Kazernestraat, a street that became an important through road and city entrance after the historic city centre was turned into a carfree zone. The bridge was designed to replace the existing road on an earthen wall, because this road did not have the desired appearance and atmosphere.
Challenge To turn a busy, repellant artery into a pleasant road with an inner city feel.
Design
soldier course at the top, is supported by a precast concrete Z-shaped element that hangs from the top of the steel sheet piling.
Detailing The railings are made of opened-up cast steel balusters and two horizontal steel tubes that link through them.
Realization This project was completed only six months after first contact with the client, which is extremely fast.
In order to increase safety and improve the inner city feel, traffic and cyclist lanes were separated. The brick walls on both sides of the traffic lanes, and the stone coloured concrete borders that run alongside the cyclist lanes, emphasize this separation. Furthermore, the cycling lanes and footpaths descend towards the middle of the bridge, whereas the traffic lanes ascend. The bridge’s city gate appearance derives from the wall elements and the lampposts on top of them.
Structure Although the bridge is, in essence, still an earthen wall, it now has a structural wall of steel sheet piling covered with brickwork. The brickwork of this retaining wall, which has a
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south elevation
baluster cross section, scale 1:20