This document discusses Inca suspension bridge construction techniques and their aesthetic possibilities. It describes how suspension bridges are built using plant fibers like esparto or hemp, based on Incan techniques. These Incan bridges are now considered world heritage sites by UNESCO. The document also outlines the concepts, techniques, materials needed and work groups involved in building a suspension bridge installation.

1. construction techniques based Inca suspension
bridges
FAB 12 BRIDGES/Shezhen 8 and 15 august
The suspension bridge is built with fiber vejetal

2. OVERVIEW suspension bridge
Esthetics varying

4. Aesthetic possibilities of the suspension bridge
• El puente colgante con
cuerdas, es una instalacion
construida con fibra vejetal
(esparto o cañamo)
• Esta instalacion se basa en
las tecnicas constructivas de
puentes colgantesincas;
• En la actualidad estos
puentes incas, han sido
declarados patrimonio de la
humanidad (Unesco)-
PUENTE DE QUISWACHACA
The pendant with rope
bridge, is an installation
built with fiber vejetal
(esparto or hemp)
This installation is based
on building bridges
colgantesincas
techniques;
At present, these Incan
bridges, have been
declared World Heritage
(Unesco) -Bridge OF
QUISWACHACA
El concepto del puente colgante es la unión de dos puntos un atrás y un adelante
-como la línea de la vida-como un viaje
El sistema de anillos se inspira en los telares de cintura permite un armado
rápido y con un potencial de expresión estética muy variado aprovechando las
características físico mecánicas de las estructuras de las cuerdas suspendida;
como los INCAS lo usaban hace 500 años
La técnica constructiva de estos puentes se ha mantenido de generación a través
de 3000años de cultura textil andina
The concept of the suspension bridge is joining
two points a back and forth like the line of life-
as a journey
The ring system is inspired by the waist looms it
allows quick assembly and a potential
advantage aesthetic expression varied physical
characteristics of mechanical structures ropes
suspended; how the Incas used it 500 years ago
The construction technique of these bridges
has been maintained from generation through
Andean textile culture 3000años

5. ANTECEDENT IN MIT /Suspension Bridges/2007
• In recent
years, MIT
archaeologi
sts and
scientists
have joined
forces in
studies of
early
Peruvian
ceramics,
balsa rafts,
and metal
alloys;

6. BRIDGE BUILT IN WASHINGTON /2015
Antecedent in Smithonian Folklife Festival

7. My experience in construction of
structures with ropes, España
MADRID, GETAFE/2015

8. THANK YOU… WALTER / BENO
MATERIALS
1. 60 MDF BOARDS
2. 50 rolls of 200 meters of rope diameter 3cm
3. 50 METAL ANCHORS
4. 200 wire rope diameter 2cm
5. 600 METAL HOOKS 4 cm in diameter
ESTIMATED TIME OF ARMED
• 2 DAYS
VOLUNTEERS to arm
• 20 PEOPLE
WORKGROUP
1. BENITO JUARES
2. DIEGO MACHUCA
3. DELIA BARRIGA
4. JAPI CONTONENTE
5. FAB NETWORK
6. WALTER GONZALES
7. VOLUNTARIOS FAB