Design of a pedestrian bridge system | Marina Carbone

The city of Millesimo, which is configured as a center for the whole of the upper Val Bormida, is a village rich in historical attractions, natural and gastronomic; is part of several national networks ranging from Club ANCI "most beautiful villages in Italy" National Association "city of truffles". 
Entering the old town, you can see the thirteenth-century fortified bridge of Gaietta, with its door-fourteenth century tower. 
The answer given project comes from the study of a subject, in urban planning, and present the agenda: that of 'crossing the river, connecting the two parts of the city, of which it is composed Millesimo. 
The bridge-walkway in front of the "Gaietta," the symbol of the medieval village and the city emerges as a strategic point for the redevelopment and revitalization of the city image; an intervention that loads on the expectations thrust to the development of the tourism sector of Millesimo, through the regeneration and wheeled out of the historic entrance to the city.

In original times will become to create an attractiveness to the community that interacts on a daily basis or occasionally to the place in question. A nature as to give the project through to arouse emotion in the observer, the wonder that you can try looking at first glance and then "through" the complexity and size of the finished object. 
The relationship with history, with architectural thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, of fundamental importance, as in the same way proves critical, the encounter between a new item and the consolidated image in the community, the gate-tower. 
Precisely this is recognized and shared, and a deliberately symbolic and formal approach, relying choice of the duplication of the door, a reproduction that inherently rejects the imitation of the existing, in order to give a new image, that of a second door that seems to guard the first, framing it in a modern setting, to ensure their survival over time. 
E 'in this way, the door of a thousandth, duplicates its nature, and consequently his name, becoming "the gates of year", where the new living space, it maintains contact with the old, observed from points view privileged. 
An intervention that distorts the original door, which seems to want to impose no respect for the history, but in reality fails to relieve what remains of the bridge Gaietta from its original function, metaphorically placing it on a pedestal to be looked at and appreciated by the new port. 
An approach directed to the use of the technique, together with considerations of performance, lead to the choice of the solution of the typological structure guyed asymmetric; allowing you to concentrate on the less populated side, mass, weight, center of gravity of the new object that is to conform. It lights up so the dialogue between the new and the old, as if they were two sides on their respective sides, separated by water but connected by the bridge, in an 'unusual scene of exhibition of the art of our times, in front of the historical building, above the which, however, the boardwalk, is able to fit with a lightweight support. 
And this is the context in which the arrangement is complex structural system to support the walkway, characterized by a strongly articulated form, which seems to be held together by a precarious balance of forces, in a game of weights, pressures and rods called to suspend in the air walk crossing the river. 
Above the tie-beam element, the "backbone" of the structure, responsible for the shooting in support of the antennas tilted, materializes a second walk, facing the sky, which leads to a surprising share and a sensational point of view from which observe the "Gaietta old bridge" and the medieval village behind.