SITE LOCATION
Abay river has many impacts starting from its
Abay river stram and �low starting from its
source to the end of ethiopia and ts area of
coverage
Nile river stream throughout africa
City relation with anay river and lake tana
The river divides the city in two districts and
the bridge connects the two city parts together
the river also located not far from the urban
area it can be seen as a major interaction point.
Abay river and lake tana relation and its
�low out of bahir dar city.
We can take the bridge as a start for urbanization or
the urban development can start from this area and
radiate all over the city.
source Ethiopia and cities that river pass
through. it has both postive and negaive
impact on each of the places it travels.
It has impact on economy, ecology, natural
elements, minerals, water resource and many
aspects.
Any developments and infrastructures that
are intend to develop must consider all of the
aspects and its effects on each cities and also
countries that it passes through.
Therefore we cant develop as we want it we
its �low at cities near to
need to consider every impacts that it will
bahir dar. neigbour hood
cause in each of neighboring countries and
impacts of the river.
cities that the river stream passes through.
River stream at bahir dar and its area river development and vegetation
of coverage and its coverage cover on the stream.
LAND USE

AD11 - ADMINISTRATION S31- SERVICES As we can see on the map allmost all frontages of sides of
AD12 - ADMINISTRATION SF1 - SPECIAL FUNCTION roads are commercial and we can see that there are left
CO11- COMMERCIAL SF2 - SPECIAL FUNCTION land lebeld as secial functoin. and residential area cover
F2 - INFORMAL GREEN SF5 - RIVER greater part of the area
A 3- AGRICULTURE SF7 - SPECIAL AREA
R 21 - RESIDENTIAL_P R11- RESIDENCE
VEGITATION

on the area all most the green land that are there are informal green which means
VEGITATION COVER they are not moniterd or not taken care of. ande the vegitation on the side of the river
are
Access And Transportation

Legend Transportation types

Plans
Primary Road Car transportation (road)
Plans
Secondary Road Boat from lake (Proposed)
Local Road
Pedestrian
the road has 9 path
metres of with. with additional 1m on both sides for walk way and cable transformation. it is
notroad
the as wide
has 9asmetres
the supporting walladditional
of with. with structure.1m
it ison
two lanesides
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metres which are on the
transformation. it is
BUILDING HEIGHT

LEGEND DESCRIPTION
Most of the buildings have low height on the area beacuse
0-4 M
of resdential area dominate in the area.
4-10 M Buildings in the road side and cultural center have more
height than other buildings in that area.
10M AND ABOVE
 Views to and from the site

view from semaetat View towards semaetat

View from the Bridge View down to the river
View from the Building View towards the Bridge
View from neigborhood by View towards the building
Distant view towards the lake
View to the river side
WATER LEVEL ANALYSIS

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placed. it can support oninitsu
in sum
time weait to pass. approxi
on their weight
Water level is decreasing through years beacuse of many human and natural impacts.
Our design must enhance water level of this river to increase its bio diversity and ecological factor.
Any strategies that we use must not affect the ecological aspects of the river.
asphalt paving

Structural concrete
Beam grid

Water level increase during rainy seasons

HISTORICAL whichABAYin- water level is low during dry seasons which decrease
crease its force and presssure to the
RIVER structure.
CHANGE its effect on the structure. in this time there wil be
Structural masonry wall
our structure need to be stable with
Themaximum waterin it’s
river is gradually decrease minimum water so building must work with minimum
level. level and coverage area. due to the
climatic change and the humman in- water effect.
tervation. But this level change vary
in summer and high rainy seasons.
 beama griders to support the asphalt pave. total number of 11 structural masonry wall with height of 1half
beama griders to support the asphalt pave. total number of 11 structural masonry wall with height of 1half
STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS
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seasons.
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ation of 600,000 N of load
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Horizontal
Level 2
gerder supported by vertical masonry walls that support tensile load of the bridge
2 1 : 500
Level 2
2 1 : 500 Structural masonry walls support com-
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river part. The land is start covetring2010the GCprhensive strength of the bridge.
It has less land in the river part. The land is start covetring the
In summer only the water is
In summer only theIt water
viewed no land is seen. has less
lake in small scale mainly in the
is land in the river
lakepart.
upper
in small scale mainly
part of the river.
in the
The Foundation
land is start covetring built
the inside the river.
viewed no land is seen. In summer only the water upper is
horizontal gerders supported by the ma-
part of the river. lake in small scale mainly in the
viewed no land is seen. upper part of the river.
sonry walls and support the bridge
they need to be treated beacuse they are
old and will not have long age to supp-
port other structure.
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