VIADOTTO DELLA MAGLIANA
Autostrada Roma - Aeroporto
1965 Riccardo Morandi
(1902/89)
Built in
the bend of the Tiber River, where the Magliana district is at beginning of the
Rome-Fiumicino highway
“On June 28,
1965 a landslide, extended in width for about 200 meters, hit the Magliana bend
of the River Tiber and the motorway bridge still under construction at the time.
The designer Riccardo Morandi - commissioned by ANAS to remedy - identified two
possible solutions: either rebuilding the ruined stretch, with a deck based on
sets of poles inserted in the ground in great depth; or cross over the whole
area of the landslide with a suspension bridge with a single arch. ANAS chose
the second option, the most ambitious and never attempted in Rome until then”
(Antonella Anappo - Il Ponte Morandi, Monografia)
“In a
continuous research, which does not consider technology for its own sake and at
the same time is devoid of formal preconceptions, Morandi designed works marked
by a perfect balance between functionality, rigor of structural solutions and
quality of the final image. (...) He studied the prestressed concrete,
developing a system, for which in 1948 won the first of seven patents related
to his name” (Enciclopedia Treccani)
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