Annealed Glass Bridge

Michael Preindl

The bridge was designed, analyzed and built by two façade engineering students of the Lucerne University of applied Siences and Arts. The project was part of the students‘ diploma thesis. First sketches were made in March 2006 and construction
was completed in November 2006.

The structure was designed under the thought: less is more! To build the bridge the students and their supervisor had to ask different companys for donations of materials. To keep the costs low the planning team decided to do without a guardrail. Eduard Imhof, a swiss architect specialized in bridge architecture, supported the design process. The conceptual design was inspired by two objects: the glass roof of the IHK Munich and a glass roof of a metro entrance in tokyo.

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