The pedestrian bridge in Paris links the Bercy and Tolbiac districts with the new French national library and Tolbiac Park. The 304 meter long bridge has a free central span of 194 meters across the Seine River without intermediate supports, providing different views for pedestrians. It is composed of three parts, including the main span across the river and two secondary spans across urban freeways on either side.

1. Simone de Beauvoir
Pedestrian Bridge
Feichtinger Architectes
Paris, July 2006

3. The pedestrian bridge with a length of 304 meters links the new districts of Paris - Bercy
and Tolbiac - and at the same time the new national french library with the Park Tolbiac

4. The new footbridge maintains the coherence of this unusually open Parisian space by
reaching across the river in a single, continuous span, without intermediate supports.
The criss-crossing of the pathways permits the free span of 194 meters. Several
possibilities linked with different perspectives are offered to the pedestrian while crossing
the bridge.

5. The bridge is composed of three parts. It comprises a main central span across the Seine,
coupled with two secondary spans across the urban freeways to either side, connected to
the French National Library and the Tolbiac Park.

6. The freeway bridges, relatively independent from the central span, are paired beams,
simply-supported across a 35 m span, which use underslung bowstring ties to stiffen the
compression deck
Two arches and two catenaries placed in parallel
form the principal span.