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This document provides information on three projects by Hugh Dutton Associés (HDA): 1) A railway footbridge in La Roche sur Yon, France, featuring a diagonal tube lattice design inspired by the town's engineering history. 2) The "Passerella Olimpica" pedestrian bridge for the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, with a leaning arched design expressing the passage of structural forces. 3) A winning competition entry for new high-voltage electricity pylons in Italy featuring elegant, nature-inspired shapes that "dance with nature" by leaning and curving in response to the landscape.

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This document provides information on three projects by Hugh Dutton Associés (HDA): 1) A railway footbridge in La Roche sur Yon, France, featuring a diagonal tube lattice design inspired by the town's engineering history. 2) The "Passerella Olimpica" pedestrian bridge for the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, with a leaning arched design expressing the passage of structural forces. 3) A winning competition entry for new high-voltage electricity pylons in Italy featuring elegant, nature-inspired shapes that "dance with nature" by leaning and curving in response to the landscape.

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HDA

HUGH DUTTON ASSOCIÉS

SELECTED PROJECTS

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Railway Footbridge, La Roche sur Yon Train Station, France
HDA role: Architect and Engineer
Co-Architect : Bernard Tschumi Architects (BTuA)
Client : SCNF

The program for the extension of the TGV network in southern France
includes a passage through the town of la Roche sur Yon. The town is
modernizing the train station and replacing an 1890’s footbridge over
the railway tracks. The distinctive design of this old bridge consists of
riveted diagonals creating guard rail beams. In collaboration with Ber-
nard Tschumi, HDA were commissioned as architects for the design and
engineering of the new footbridge. The town is separated by the rail-
way tracks into two parts: the historical central neighborhood, which
contains the ‘Pentagon’ planned by Napoleon on one side and it’s con-
temporary counterpart with its modern facilities (stadium, school and
residential zones)one the other.
La Roche sur Yon is the birthplace of Robert le Ricolais, engineer,
architect, poet and painter, known for his theoretical research on trellis
structures and tensegrity during the 1950’s. This heritage, both intel-
lectual and historical, has inspired the design of the footbridge. The di-
agonal tube lattice design recalls the existing footbridge and expresses
the passage of forces in the work. At support points, the stresses are
mainly shear, in the predominantly vertical direction, and at mid-span,
the stresses become principally bending and the direction tends to-
wards the horizontal. The natures of the forces are highlighted by ‘T’
section profiles for compression and simple rod ties for those in tension.
The result is a harmonious geometrid composition and which expresses
the natural forces within.

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«Passerella Olimpica» Winter Games, Turin, Italy
HDA Role : Architect
Co-Architect : Benedetto Camerana
Client : Agenzia Torino 2006

“Every great event can be summed up by an emblem and a pow-


erful symbol that identifies it. Performing this function for Turin
and the XX Winter Olympics is the imposing, futuristic red arch of
the pedestrian bridge connecting Lingotto to the former General
Market. It is a symbol that along with many others, changes the city
skyline, but also stands for the larger process of renewal that the
city had embarked on.” Sergio Champarino Mayor of Turin
The parabolic arch, whose inspiration is found in the concrete
arches of the existing Mercati halls, thereby linking the design to
it’s context.
The leaning arch, the curving deck and the virtual spaces cre-
ated by the cables radiating as spokes from the deck to the arch all
create drama and excitement. The bridge design is a symbiosis of
engineering and architecture. The architectural composition finds
it’s logic in structural expression. The forces are clearly expressed
in the dynamism of the architectural composition. We understand
of the passage of forces through the deck, cables and arch to the
foundations. Aesthetic pleasure can be found in feeling the athletic
dynamism of structure. This is a fitting and appropriate approach for
a monument to the Olympic games.

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Terna Electric Pylon, Dancing with nature, Italy HDA role : Designer
Team Architect : Studio Rosental

HDA’s design for high tension electricity pylons was the winning entry in
a competition held by Terna in Italy. Terna is a private national electricity
provider that is undergoing a phased modernizing of their 60000km net-
work. Their programme has a notable economical and ecological outlook
and the brief invited the competitors to specifically address these issues.

In the phase concerned by the competition, Terna’s objective is to reduce


the length of a line supplying Rome from 1200km to 800km, by modernizing
it with more efficient equipment. Terna are very conscious of the image of
their lines in the public eye and in the natural landscape, and they wish to
improve the environmental impact of the pylons on the landscape. Though
the new pylons will cost about 3 times more than the existing ones, the
reduced amount of electric lines will mean an overall cost saving. The pub-
lic image is considered important enough to validate the cost of the design
and that it is justifiable in considering the whole operation.

HDA’s design response is based on changing the current ‘industrial sol-


dier’ image of today’s pylons. This is done primarily by creating an el-
egant shape whose form is inspired by nature, instead of the more
typical galvanized trellises, and secondly by what we call ‘dancing with
nature’, whereby the pylons lean and swerve in response to the topog-
raphy. They find a structural equilibrium by leaning into the curve of
the electric cables as they follow the constraints of the landscape.

In order to avoid repetitive standardization, the design uses para


metric analysis and numerical tools to manageably create an individual
design for each pylon, so it can respond to the specific criteria and param-
eters of its location.

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New Acropolis Museum , Athens, Grece
HDA role : Specialist consultant
Architect : Bernard Tschumi (BTuA)
Client : Greek ministry of culture, OCNAM

The return of the Parthenon Marbles, removed by Lord Elgin, has


long been a strong ambition of Greece, and a competition was held to
design a new home for them at the foot of the Acropolis. Bernard Ts-
chumi’s winning design proposed a rooftop gallery in glass to the exact
proportions of the Parthenon itself, that would put the marbles in their
original context but protected from the elements.
HDA were commissioned by the Greek Ministry of Culture to assist in
the technical design for the glass envelope with the challenge to find
the best possible solution to the fundamentally contradictory objec-
tives of optimal transparency and maximum solar protection.
The resulting design incorporates high performance coated glazing
products and a double skin that includes shading screens for the most
exposed elevations. Low iron glass is used to maximize light colour
integrity and black fritting is provided for complementary glare protec-
tion.
HDA’s appointment included design of all other glass components in
the museum such as the lower level archaic gallery facade in tall glass
fins, balustrades, skylights and glass floors that allow views down to
excavations below the beneath the floor slabs.

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Patent, Articulated Glass Bolt

Hugh Dutton is the co-inventor with Martin Francis of an articu-


lated glass bolt developed for La Villette Science Museum facades with
RFR in 1985.

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