Holešovice and Karlín will be connected by the HolKa footbridge. It is made of a unique material and rises several meters during floods | iRADIO
After 39 years, Prague is waiting for a new bridge – a footbridge nicknamed HolKa will connect the districts of Holešovice and Karlín. Štvanice island will also be made accessible for pedestrians and cyclists. The nearly 300-meter-long footbridge will be the eighteenth connection of the Prague banks of the Vltava. The city will cost almost 300 million crowns. This is the first such building in Europe – it is unique both in terms of material and design.
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Visualization of the winning design of the bridge Holešovice Karlín | Source: Institute of Planning and Development m of Prague
It now takes about three minutes to cross the river by ferry. At the end of the year, the people of Prague will be able to walk from one bank to the other at any time, on a footbridge that is only 22 centimeters thin. The minimalist appearance of the building is made possible by a specific material developed at the Klokner Institute of the Czech University in Prague.
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“Ultra-high-performance concrete is a special type of composite that is very rarely used in bridge construction. It is very advantageous because it has excellent durability and excellent mechanical properties,” he says one of the authors of the Petr footbridge The one.
The appearance of the concrete will resemble white marble. The lifting system, which is supposed to protect the footbridge during floods, is also a rarity. “It works in such a way that there is a joint in one place, i.e. a steel element around which everything rotates. And there is a hydraulic piston in the abutment on the Holešovice side, which lifts the entire footbridge into position 3.2 meters up,” says Tej.
Prague connected the construction of the footbridge with other important improvements in the area. For example, the Bubenské nábřeží is to be transformed into a wide barrier-free colonnade, and a new park will be built from Štvanice Island.
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