Floating Bridge Maldives

The bridge of Maldives design needs to answer to both the engineering challenges and the environmental challenges at the site and stay within a reasonable budget.

A conventional design would implicate several big foundations at the sea bed which are not only costly and complex to build but also have a very negative impact on any life at the bottom of the ocean.

The floating bridge is an environment friendly answer to cope with the profound depths. The concept may be used for this assignment but also be applicable in the future to connect other islands and still preserve the qualities of the Maldives.

Data

Client

GDP

Surface

Bridge 1: 250m, Bridge 2: 330m, Bridge 3 1400m of length

Period

2010 – 2013

Place

Gulhi Falhu, Maldives

Disciplines

Architecture

Structural design

Projectteam

Jorge Moura, Niek van der Sluis, Dirk Jan Peters