Matute Remus Bridge

[Alejandro24 575]

This is one of the drawings of this project located in the cross of López Mateos Avenue and Lazaro Cárdenas Roadway in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. The official name of the bridge is Puente Jorge Matute Remus, between the people is knowed as Puente Matute Remus or simply Puente Atirantado. This bridge recently opened yesterday (January 29 of 2011), after more than a year in construction, with a concert and opening it for the people to walk through the bridge. As the drawing, the bridge is suspension bridge, but the particularity of this bridge jumps a human obstacle, otherwise other and biggest suspensions bridges jumps a natural obstacle, like a river, lake or sea. The construction was started in october of 2009 and finished in january 2011.

First render of the project: Lazaro Cárdenas Roadway (In spanish, Calzada Lazaro Cárdenas) on the bridge, crossing from right to left of the picture Guadalupe Avenue and López Mateos Avenue. (photo:Gobierno de Jalisco)

One night before the opening (photo:GDL Walker).

Under the bridge there is a lineal park.

In the lineal park there are a skateboarding rink, this was opened some days before the opening. In the background, Arcos del Tercer Milenio (Third Millenium Arch), an artistic monument later the bridge, over the crossing of Lazaro Cárdenas Roadway and Mariano Otero Avenue. (Photo: Assemblage23)

A sculpture of Virgen de Guadalupe besides the bridge. This sculpture was removed when started the construction, now is there again in a new sanctuary of roses. (Photo: Assemblage23)

Waterfall style fountain. Fountains are common in this city.  (Photo: Assemblage23)

Tribute to Jorge Matute Remus engineer. In the last p  "In honor of his creative imagination and his capacity to build cities it names this public park and bridge unique in its kind 'Park and Bridge Engineer Jorge Matute Remus'". (Photo: Assemblage23)

Opening concert and party at the start of the bridge. Near the bridge, in construction, Hotel Riu Guadalajara. (Photo: enrique-gdl)

Details:

Lengt: 950 meters.

Height: around 30 meters

Location: Calzada Lazaro Cárdenas, between the streets Atmosfera and Santurario, at the east, Lorenzo Boturini and Antonio Valeriano, at the west.

Other: around 1000 tons of iron and 22000 m3 of concrete, costs around 450 million of pesos.

About Jorge Matute Remus:

Guadalajara, frebuary 17 of 1912 - 2002, was a mexican engineer, famous because his movement of the 1700-ton building of Telefonos de Mexico (Mexican telecommunications) in 1950 to widen a main street (Vallarta Avenue) in Guadalajara gained him a place in the city's history. The building was moved 17 meters away from its original position with all the communication operators working inside. Also he was the designer of the waters system of Guadalajara and is the founder of The University's Technology Institute became the University Center of Exact Sciences and Engineering (Centro Universitario de Ciencias Exactas e Ingenierias, CUCEI).

This is all for now, if I find more details of this construction I'll post here. I hope you like it, regards.

Sources:

Technical Details: http://pasalomejor.jalisco.gob.mx/matute/conoce.html

More Info and photos: http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=989769  In this threat you can find articles from newspapers, fan photos, technical photos and comments from the users.

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge_Matute_Remus

[Easy Bakes 253]

Thats a nice looking bridge.

[Duke87 1,070]

Originally posted by: Alejandro24

As the drawing, the bridge is suspension bridge,quote>

No, that is a cable stay bridge.

Looks nice, certainly, although I'd question the necessity of such an elaborate structure. Could it not have been built as just a simple viaduct?

Then again... 450 million pesos is 37 million US dollars. The same structure in an American city would have been amazingly cheap if it could be built for ten times that. So, I guess cost control isn't so much a concern for you guys down there.

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

Congratulations to all Guadalejara on this beautiful project.  I am sure this solved a major problem for the city, produced a very nice piece of urban architecture and a wonderfull park.

Mexico has been getting some bad press lately, and this shows that there is more there than drug cartels and gangs.

@Duke87:  Can you say monument?  There appears to be some spirit of municipal pride there.  Your practical streak will do you harm some day.

[hamsterTK 93]

Is there some kind of rivalry with Monterrey or something?

They have a random bridge over nothing there too.

[Xyloxadoria 1,099]

Seems more like a fancy elevated highway than a bridge.

[Alejandro24 575]

@Easy Bakes: Yeah, that's a really nice bridge.

@Duke87: Thanks for the corrections, stay cabled bridge kind, I'll remember. About the question if its neccesary an elaborate structure for this kind of purposes: this was a big question in the city when the project was presented, some years ago. As far as I know, the architects and engineers wanted a new monument and landmark in the city, in the cross between two of the most important avenues in the metropolitan area, this argument convinced the majority of people of the city. A single viaduct, for some people, maybe look too "dry", "ugly" and specially "chilango", like a thing imported from the capital of the country, also later in the roadway there is a single viaduct. About the costs: yes is expensive, but is not because the details, it's because is too hard to build big structures in the city, why?, simply, the terrain is sandy, porous, moist and weak, the foundations of the buildings have to be very deep (that's because there are not too much skycrapers in the metropolitan area), also the bridge is made principally with iron, and there are another factors from the goverment.

@A Noony Moose:  Thank's. This is a part of the project to finish the viaduct systems of Lazaro Cárdenas Roadway. And yes, this is good press, pity that kind of news does not transcend beyond the "local" section.

@hamsterTK: Rivalry? Well, being honest, there is rivalry between the most important cities in Mexico: Mexico DF vs Guadalajara, Monterrey vs Guadalajara. Maybe you're tinking in the bridge over Santa Catalina River in Monterrey, Puente De La Unidad, well both are stay cabled bridges, but there is a difference too big.

@Xyloxadoria: That's the point, the project is finish the Lazaro Cárdenas Roadway, so it is a fancy elevated highway really.

Today the bridge was opened to the cars and normal traffic, al works fine, the velocity diplicated in both senses and there are less contamination around the zone, also there is a problem in the west with some semaphores in the avenue, nothing more.

Shared Plaza between the base of the structure and Riu hotel (under construction).

During the endurance of the structures.

Another perspective by night.

And some people in the park.

[Ocram's Razr 963]

It looks beautiful! Too bad I won't see it when I visit my family. They live in the San Jos

[beebs 129]

Originally posted by: Duke87

Looks nice, certainly, although I'd question the necessity of such an elaborate structure. Could it not have been built as just a simple viaduct?

quote>

There was likely a desire to avoid the dead zone that giant freeway overpasses tend to be. This bridge creates a vibrant urban park, and an architectural destination, rather than simply an elevated concrete mass with more concrete underneath.

I say, good on the city for pushing that through. It looks fantastic.

[Alejandro24 575]

A video showing the travel through the bridge to the 3d Millenium Arch, from west to east.

[Ocram's Razr 963]

Guadalajara is a big place and I would like to know where it is closest to: San Jos

[Alejandro24 575]

Originally posted by: Ilikeseattle

Guadalajara is a big place and I would like to know where it is closest to: San José neighborhood, Templo Expiatorio, Guadalajara Cathedral, the Airport, or Plaza Del Sol (hotel district)?quote>

Wich Neigborhoud with the name San José is: Colonia Jardines de San José, or Colonia San José del Valle de Tlajomulco?

Engineering of the bridge:

• 165 meters of the bridge (5000 tons of weigh) are a stay cabled bridge with pendulum effect suspension. This means, that the bridge is totally isolated from the ramps or another contact with the groud, technicaly is floating with the wires and the archs. Between the ramps and the bridge there is something like accordions (buffers is the word?) manufactured in Germany, is less vulnerable to earthquakes, winds and another extreme factors.
• The wires supports: central wires 340 tons each one; external wires 50 tons each one. In total 96 tensors, the wires supports around a tension of 17,500 kg/cm2.
• The archs wich supports the wires are with piramidal/rhomboid shape, aporting esthetical vision, and are inclined.
• The pilons of the rest of the bridge have the V shape, made of concrete and steel, with more buffers for natural movement of the temperature. The foundations are at 13.80 meters undergroud.

Source: http://www.cnnexpansion.com/obras/2011/01/30/puente-atirantado-guadalajara-ingenieria

Perspective of the cables and the archs.

Perspective of the accordeons.

Another perspective of the bridge.

[Ocram's Razr 963]

It is beautiful and I recognize the giant orange curly sculpture from my trip to Plaza del Sol from my abuelitos' townhouse (la casa de mis abuelitos). I might ask my abuelito or step grandmother "abuelita" to drive over the bridge just for the fun of it, maybe we could go shopping in the district nearby (or Plaza del Sol).