Footbridges in Meydan One Mall in Dubai, UAE

A big commercial and entertainment complex called Meydan One, designed by the American architectural firm AE7, is currently under construction in Dubai, UAE. The complex consists of a big shopping mall surrounded by different towers for offices and hotels, a ski slope, gardens with lagoons, etc.

The mall has a dominant long and wide corridor called the “canyon” which is crossed by 7 steel footbridges, the subject of this paper. The bridges share aesthetic traits amongst another, as well as with the roof over the canyon, creating a unified whole.

The paper outlines the mall as the context of the footbridges. Their design and structure are then explained with focus on how a single structural system is adapted to different situations. The paper concludes with describing the sophisticated erection sequence necessitated by the use of steel plates as tensile members.

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