PUENTE DEL CABO
PLANOS Y DETALLES TÉCNICOS
Historic structure as contemporary pedestrian infrastructure
The intervention restores the historic Puente del Cabo, located at the lower section of the Barranco de Santos, within one of the most historically significant urban areas of Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
The project raises the existing bridge to improve the hydraulic performance of the channel while revealing the original riveted steel truss structure, concealed for decades beneath successive layers of fill and redundant service installations.
A new steel beam system is threaded through the restored trusses, providing the necessary structural capacity and supporting a restrained timber deck finished with stainless steel mesh balustrades.
At both ends, new platforms incorporate ramps, steps and places of pause, resolving universal accessibility while extending the bridge into the surrounding public realm.
The intervention redefines a historic crossing as a contemporary urban element, where structural memory, technical precision and civic use are brought into a single architectural gesture.
TECHNICAL DATA: Year: 2013-2014. Location: Barranco de Santos, Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Architects: Antonio Corona Bosch, Arsenio Pérez Amaral, Mark Senning, David Rojo Pascual. Civil Engineers: Lorenzo García Bermejo, Alberto Calle Díaz, Sandra Dieste, Alejandro Barreda Delgado (Civilport Ingeniería). Client: Consejo Insular de Aguas del Cabildo de Tenerife. (Regional Waterboard). Collaborators: Yapci Santos (Quantity Surveyor), Aquilino Dorta (Metal Structures)
