Entirely hidden by weeds, lost in the green countryside near Florence in Bagno a Ripoli (FI), the small stone arch bridge over the brook Rignalla, left tributary of the river Arno, has been recently discovered and brought to light. The Consortium of Reclamation of Central Tuscany, the authority for the protection and maintenance of soil and waterways of the Florentine countryside, has entrusted us with the task of a research project aimed at a cognitive analysis of the bridge and at a rehabilitation and functional recovery project for a pedestrian public use, setting it in a newly constructed trekking way, in the countryside. The aim of this paper is to promote the knowledge of a historical construction, left abandoned for years, by returning an architecture by now considered lost to the local community. The structural analyzes have been performed using an original algorithm, developed by the authors themselves, whose numerical procedure interprets the non-linearity of the masonry material searching for the static solution through an iterative method, at the end of which the line of thrusts connected with the loads in the shape of the bridge is returned. The date of the laying of the foundation-stone in unknown: it is also rumoured it is a “Roman bridge”. Our historical research, also supported by the static analysis, made in order to evaluate the degree of stability of such a structure, suggests a new hypothesis and submits us an interesting question: may it be possible to attribute the authorship of the bridge to Leonardo da Vinci?

The ancient bridge Romajolo in Bagno a Ripoli (FI): from the recent discovery to the rehabilitation project / Michele Paradiso; Giacomo Tempesta; Stefano Galassi; Daniela Zerboni. - In: WIADOMOSCI KONSERWATORSKIE. - ISSN 0860-2395. - STAMPA. - 3:(2012), pp. 2196-2204. (Intervento presentato al convegno 8th International Conference on Structural Analysis of Historical Constructions - SAHC 2012 tenutosi a Breslavia, Polonia nel 15-17 ottobre 2012).

The ancient bridge Romajolo in Bagno a Ripoli (FI): from the recent discovery to the rehabilitation project

PARADISO, MICHELE;TEMPESTA, GIACOMO;GALASSI, STEFANO;
2012

Abstract

Entirely hidden by weeds, lost in the green countryside near Florence in Bagno a Ripoli (FI), the small stone arch bridge over the brook Rignalla, left tributary of the river Arno, has been recently discovered and brought to light. The Consortium of Reclamation of Central Tuscany, the authority for the protection and maintenance of soil and waterways of the Florentine countryside, has entrusted us with the task of a research project aimed at a cognitive analysis of the bridge and at a rehabilitation and functional recovery project for a pedestrian public use, setting it in a newly constructed trekking way, in the countryside. The aim of this paper is to promote the knowledge of a historical construction, left abandoned for years, by returning an architecture by now considered lost to the local community. The structural analyzes have been performed using an original algorithm, developed by the authors themselves, whose numerical procedure interprets the non-linearity of the masonry material searching for the static solution through an iterative method, at the end of which the line of thrusts connected with the loads in the shape of the bridge is returned. The date of the laying of the foundation-stone in unknown: it is also rumoured it is a “Roman bridge”. Our historical research, also supported by the static analysis, made in order to evaluate the degree of stability of such a structure, suggests a new hypothesis and submits us an interesting question: may it be possible to attribute the authorship of the bridge to Leonardo da Vinci?
2012
Structural Analysis of Historical Constructions - Cathedral in Wroclove
8th International Conference on Structural Analysis of Historical Constructions - SAHC 2012
Breslavia, Polonia
15-17 ottobre 2012
Michele Paradiso; Giacomo Tempesta; Stefano Galassi; Daniela Zerboni
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