The Can Gili Footbridge provides a direct route between the densely populated area of can Gilli and the greener Terra Alta, which were previously only connected by a bridge on their outskirts.
Terra Alta on the north side sits 4.3 metres higher than can Gili on the south with the bridge sloping between the two.
The asymmetric bridge is finished in weathered steel, illuminated by LEDs and has a treated timber decking.
The steel structure took four days to assemble from components manufactured off-site.
CAN GILI FOOTBRIDGE OVER THE BV-1432 HIGHWAY IN GRANOLLERS
Introduction
The construction of this footbridge is an old claim of the inhabitants of the two neighbourhoods separated from one another by the trench of the BV-1432 road. These two residential areas, Terra Alta on the south bank and can Gili on the north one, have a different nature: can Gili is a dense zone with shops and community services, but no green areas, and Terra Alta is a low density urban area, with a community park, but with no services.
So far, people from one neighbourhood wanting to go to the other one had to make a detour, crossing the road through a highway bridge, placed at the east border of these urban areas, with a single narrow footway in one of the sides of its deck.
For these reasons, at the beginning of 2001 the Granollers Borough Council commissioned Alfa Polaris (http://bierot.net) to carry out the concept design and the detailing document of a new link between these two urban areas.
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