Architect Santiago Calatrava

Location Bilbao, Spain map

Date 1990 to 1997 timeline
Building Type bridge, footbridge
Construction System steel inclined parabolic arch with glass decking
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Context urban waterside

Style Modern
Notes "Puente del Campo Volantin", or "Zubizuri". Graceful
curving glass-decked footbridge. A short walk along the river
from the Guggenheim Bilbao by Frank gehry.
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Discussion Campo Volantin Footbridge Commentary

"As in many other designs by Santiago Calatrava, an apparent disequilibrium or rath

frozen movement is heightened by the lightness of the structure."
 — Philip Jodidio. Santiago Calatrava. p152.
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Philip Jodidio. Santiago Calatrava. Benedikt Taschen Verlag GmbH, 1998. ISBN 3-
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Kevin Matthews. The Great Buildings Collection on CD-ROM. Artifice, 2001. ISBN
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Architect Santiago Calatrava

Location Zurich, Switzerland map
Date 1983 to 1984 timeline
transportation terminal,
Building Type
railway station
Construction System steel frames and glass
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Climate cold temperate
Context urban
Style Modern
Notes Graceful curving glass-roofed
canopy developed with
counterpoised steel.
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Discussion Stadelhofen Railway Station Commentary

"Unlikely as it sounds, the messy, open-ended and conflicting features of the Stadel
brief appear in retrospect to have supplied ideal stimulus to Calatrava's structural inv
wit. The site is a large rent or rupture in the fabric of the city caused by the overlay
the old system of city walls and an intrusive but brief eruption of railway tracks abo

"The plot both slopes and curves along more than one axis. An abrupt change of lev
west, a gentle incline and then decline from north to south, and a sharp lateral curve
whole way across the site add up to a geometrical nightmare or, as it turned out, a se
opportunities."

—Robert Harbison with Paolo Rosselli, photographs. Creatures from the Mind of th
Architecture of Santiago Calatrava. p2-3.

"As part of the local railway network, Stadelhofen Station must accommodate the h
expected in the next few years. As a result, a third track is being added along with a
trackless platform. The main structural components are the protective wall, which is
the platforms, the gallery which covers the railway on the side nearest the mountain
erected bridge connections and a retail level which acts as an underpass to the interm

"The duality of the mountain and the valley, which arises from the positioning of the
emphasised by the structural elements in between. Light steel bridges connect both a
remaining elements of the station, the roofs above the tracks and the canopies etc., c
 convey the greatest possible unity."

—from Werner Blaser, ed. Santiago Calatrava: Engineering Architecture. p48.

The Creator's Words

"This large-scale attack on the urban landscape is characterised by the organisation

the part of the constructive element."

—Santiago Calatrava. from Werner Blaser, ed. Santiago Calatrava: Engineering Arc

Details

concrete: 22 000 cubic meters

reinforced concrete: 2000 tonnes
form work: 53 000 square meters
boring stakes: 500 meters
insulation: 8000 square meters
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Werner Blaser, ed. Santiago Calatrava: Engineering Architecture. Second Edition, r

extended. Berlin: Birkhauser Verlag, 1990. ISBN 3-7643-2460-0. NA1313.C35S26
p48.

Donald Corner and Jenny Young. Slide from photographer's collection. PCD.2260.1
PCD.2260.1012.1842.30

Robert Harbison, with Paolo Rosselli, photographs. Creatures from the Mind of the
Architecture of Santiago Calatrava. Zurich: Architectural Publishers Artemis Verlag
ISBN 3-7608-8083-2. NA1313.C35H37 1992. discussion, p2-3.

Dennis Sharp. Twentieth Century Architecture: a Visual History. New York: Facts o
ISBN 0-8160-2438-3. NA680.S517. exterior photo, small section drawing, p384. —
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Kevin Matthews. The Great Buildings Collection on CD-ROM. Artifice, 2001. ISBN
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