Article source: Alfa Polaris

Montornès del Vallès is a municipality of 16,000 inhabitants in the metropolitan area of Barcelona. Montornès Centre is the main settlement, where most of the population —more than 12,000 inhabitants— live. However, a significant part of its residents —some 3,700— live in Montornès North, located just over a kilometre away. The two urban areas are on opposite sides of the River Mogent, which crosses the municipality from east to west. So far, there was only one bridge to cross the river. The main goal of the construction of this new footbridge was to provide a new pedestrian path to reduce the length of the displacements between these two main districts, and at the same time to offer a more friendly route for pedestrians and cyclists with a higher quality experience than the one that resulted from walking along the streets of the industrial estate that stretches between Montornès North and the old bridge over the river.

Image Courtesy © Xavier Font

• Architects: Alfa Polaris
• Project: Footbridge over the river Mogent
• Location: Montornès del Vallès, Spain
• Photography: Xavier Font
  
• Client: Montornès del Vallès City Council, Pere Pascual Mariné, Josep Pérez Amatller
  
• Health And Safety: Trema Projectes, Andreu Gilaberte, Àngels Salvadó
  
• Site Supervision: Montòrnès del Vallès City Council, assisted by Alfa Polaris, S.L.
  
• Main Contractor: Excavaciones y Construcciones Benjumea, S.A, Albert Barrero Gil, Carlos Marín Suárez
  
• Steel Fabricator: Grupo Goded, Juan Rosa Hernández, Agustín Macau Farran
• Gabion Walls: MUROXS, Joan Planas
• Design: 2013-2014
  
• Construction: 2015-2016

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