About Tintagel Castle Footbridge
In the beginning of September the bi-annual Footbridge Awards were announced by the UK magazine Bridge Design & Engineering at the occasion of the International Footbridge Conference. The international jury honoured the design with the following words: Tintagel Bridge is a bridge of breathtaking delicacy. The jury recognized that it requires exceptional effort to make something appear so effortless, and were impressed by the design in context as well as the detail that contributes to its slender demeanour… This footbridge was commissioned by English Heritage and was realized in collaboration with William Matthews Associates.
About the design challenge
At the occasion of Footbridge 2022 the organisation invited designers to submit preliminary designs for 4 different sites in Spain. The team of project engineers Ana Sanchez and Kenryo Takahashi of Ney & Partners won this design concours with their proposal for the Riaño site (Spain). The proposed footbridge that spans over the Riaño artificial reservoir, connecting two areas that have been separated for 35 years. It is a double-suspension bridge curved in plan view whose shape is achieved through a process of form-finding.