STEEL PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE TO PROTECT A UNIQUE TREE
Conservation of green plantings is an important international task. Nowadays a lot of questions about green wealth protection are in consideration. This paper describes a structure of pedestrian bridge together with outlook in Daya Vieja (Alicante, Spain). This structure was designed to protect a landmark palm tree from wind loads. This six-trunk palm tree was declared a nature monument by the Valencial government in 2012. Steel helicoidal structure protects the palm tree from wind loads. An 18m long straight beam starts on the top of this helix, and stretches towards a lookout point that offers a view of the whole village and its surroundings. Thus, this structure carries out two functions - tree protection from wind loads and a pedestrian bridge together with a lookout.