Peculiarities of Ensuring the Architectural Expressiveness of Bridges

Abstract

Introduction. Tourist attraction of Ukraine is one of aspects of economic development. Taking into account Ukraine’s desire to become a world level country and to develop tourist potential, there is a necessity to update the quality of transport infrastructure as well as its aesthetic expressiveness. Problems. Almost all of Ukrainian bridges (especially small and mid-sized bridges) look monotonously because they were built in context of money saving. Due to this reason, Ukrainians associate them exclusively with transport structures that serve only for passage of traffic and pedestrian flows and do not need an art expressiveness. Purpose. To analyze an existing Ukrainian and world experience of bridges and overpasses designing and building to reveal the ways of achieving their aesthetic attractiveness in purpose of its implementation in Ukrainian bridge designing. To propose the methods of updating an existing transport structures in Ukraine. Materials and methods. The Ukrainian and world experience of bridges and overpasses designing and building was analyzed during the research. Сomparative and descriptive methods let us to reveal common trends in world bridge construction and analyze the possibilities of using the world experience in Ukraine. Results. An analytical review of bridges and overpasses that were built in Ukraine and abroad. Revealed the ways of achieving their art expressiveness. Given the propositions of updating an existing bridges and overpasses in Ukraine in order to provide then with aesthetic attraction. Вefined the places where it is necessary to provide a positive art image of transport structures in order to develop Ukraine’s tourist potential. Conclusions. It’s important to stick to recommendation of DBN B.2.3-22:2009 about holding a competition before designing bridges to achieve an attractiveness of transport structures and to develop Ukraine’s tourist potential and reputation. In the conditions of considerable limited financial possibilities of our country, it is necessary to concentrate on the most visited bridges and overpasses on the main roads. The designing of artistically expressive construction of bridges is the task of the medium and longer term. But now due to pretty limited financial possibilities of country, it is worth to start with updating the image of an existing bridges. This includes minimum monetary costs compared to designing and building of new ones. Keywords: transport structures, bridges, overpasses, architecture, image, attraction, tourism.