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	Passerelle Simone de Beauvoir
Designer	Dietmar Feichtinger , Architect
Location	Paris, France
Date	June 1999 to July 2006
Structure Type	Bridge
Construction System	Steel, "pectinate lenticular" truss.
Climate	Moderate
Context	Urban
Street Address	Paris 12th and 13th arrondissements
Notes	adjacent to Bibliotheque National de France (1996), Paris, France

Contents 1 Images 2 Discussion 2.1 Project Team 2.2 Passerelle Simone de Beauvoir at Wikipedia 3 Maps 4 References 5 External Links 6 External Images

Images

Discussion

Bridge Details
Client	City of Paris
Crosses	Seine River
Traffic	pedestrians
Traffic	pedestrians
Length	304m (997.38 ft)
Width	6-12m (19.68-39.37 ft)
Length of Longest Span	194m (636.48 ft)
Cost	21 Million Euro

Passerelle Simone de Beauvoir is a pedestrian bridge across the Seine River, connecting the 12th and 13th Arrondissements of Paris, France. The form of the bridge is determined by an unusual, undulating truss which has been described as "pectinate lenticular". This truss allows the bridge to provide two distinct intertwining decks whose endpoints arrive at different vertical locations along the riverside, serving separate pedestrian access points.

Project Team

• Architect of Record: Dietmar Feichtinger, Feichtinger Architectes, Paris, France
• Consulting Engineers: RFR Engineers
• Foundations: Sepia
• Aerodynamics: PSP RWTH Aix la Chapelle
• Client for Extern Control, Calculation: Setra
• Construction firm Eiffel

Passerelle Simone de Beauvoir at Wikipedia

Passerelle Simone-de-Beauvoir

See a related page at Wikipedia for additional information.

Maps

References

• "La passerelle Simonde De Beauvoir", by François Lamarre, Co-edition: Ante Prima (Paris) - Archives d'Architecture Moderne (Bruxelles), December 2006. ISBN 978-2-87143-175-6
• To Cross the Seine by Henry Bardsley, ArchitectureWeek, October 04, 2006.
• Passerelle Simone de Beauvoir at fr.Wikipedia.org (in French)
• Simone de Beauvoir at Wikipedia.org

External Links

• Paris bridge named after feminist – BBC, 2006.0713
• New Paris bridge suffers wobble – BBC, 2006.0721
• Passerelle Simone de Beauvoir at City of Paris website.

External Images

Photos of Passerelle Simone de Beauvoir at Flickr.com