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The Integral Plan project for the recovery of the Estero Salado intends to dam the estuary waters in tract B, at about km. 1.5 on Carlos Julio Arosemena Ave. For this a dam system has been designed combining reinforced concrete, metallic and pole board structures, which will be located in perpendicular sense to the estuary’s axis, connecting the watersides located on both, the edge of Carlos Julio Arosemena Ave. (where a mainly commercial mixed paraphernalia exists) and Urdesa (where a residential paraphernalia exists).

With the purpose of minimizing the impact in the landscape that these structures which will be inserted in a sector of the estuary that still has the presence of mangroves in both watersides, it has been intended to design a pedestrian bridge on the aforementioned dam structures, taking advantage of these with the purpose of reverting their presence in a landscaping resource. The bridge will also cover the necessity to join in a pedestrian way Urdesa with Carlos Julio Arosemena Avenue in the Catholic University sector; it will be supplemented by the recovery works on both watersides that are being carried out by the M. I. Municipality of Guayaquil as part of its plans for the Recovery of the Estero Salado and the Urban Regeneration.

The architectural design of the bridge has as objective to reduce to the minimum the presence of dam structures using as resource the superstructures designed as masts, pergolas, and rails, which have been designed as a sculptural-landscaping group that seeks to create an emblematic object that not only does it change the landscape, but rather becomes a historical landmark in the beginning of the recovery of the Estuary and that in turn it exalts in the community a new conscience of respect for our natural resources.

Due to this the design has taken advantage of the presence of the inclined pillars to continue them and even to project them up, above the surface of the floor where their reinforced concrete sections change form to give space to the metallic structures designed as masts that take the same inclination of the pillars, as a continuation of these.

Between the masts, and as complement to these, some pergolas whose serpentine forms seem to be active because of the breeze of the landscape have been designed, these besides projecting shade on the bridge, are trying to enrich the volume composition in a harmonic way.

On the opposed border the rail’s design proposes a series of “ribs” that are projected forward and downward, creating a new “first plane” well in front of the pole boards, what notably contributes to unload the weight of its mass.

The materials used in the design try to evoke the essence of the landscaping natural elements such as the water, the hill, the breeze, and their relationship with fluvial activity, it is for this reason that the wood plays an important role as finishing material in the design; the surface of the bridge’s floor will be a wooden boarding, which will be complemented by the wood on the pergola beams.
The rest of the structures: masts, rails, pergolas and those that are characteristic of the bridge will be metallic, and will be fixed to the dam’s reinforced concrete structures.