Passerelle de la Tortue
Ville de Québec
Category
Public spaces and parks , Infrastructure and transportation
Client
Ville de Québec
Location
Quebec (Québec) / Canada
Date
2021
Budget
6 M$
Area
Portée: 87 m - Largeur: 4 m - Hauteur des mâts: 15 m
Credits
Photos © Stéphane Groleau
Awards and mentions
Award of excellence Cecobois winner, «Solutions innovantes» category
Finalist « Work out of category», Wood Preservation Award of the Wood Design&Building Awards Program of the Canadian Wood Council
Grand Winner (Architecture), Gold Certification and Platinum Winner, Infrastructure category
Description
Continuing on from the Trois-Soeurs footbridge, the architectural concept of the Tortue footbridge stands out for its lightness, delicacy and the symbolic, signalling character of its masts. The asymmetrical, fully suspended structure is composed of steel cables and circular stringers supporting a glulam deck. The underside of the deck and the steel structure are fully exposed.
This type of structure enables the bridge to be crossed while reducing the size of the framework. The V-shaped masts are located at the limit of the high-water line, around a third of the way up the span, and rise more than 20m above the river. They are made up of digitally-cut, variable-inertia glulam posts, connected by a cable at the top.
