Zonnewendebrug: 360 unique printed balusters

Zonnewendebrug crosses the Oostenburgervaart, with its sequence of individually shaped pale-green balusters visible along both handrails. — Zonnewendebrug over the Oostenburgervaart, photographed 26 July 2023. Ceescamel / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. The photograph is shown without crop.

What the sources establish

The pedestrian bridge spans thirty metres over Oostenburgervaart.
MX3D credits City of Amsterdam architect Cyrus Clark.
The handrail contains 360 subtly different balustrade poles, each transitioning from the previous.
The poles were produced with robotic Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing.
The City engineering bureau lists Zonnewendebrug among its fixed-bridge work.

Evidence limits

The whole bridge is not described as 3D printed. This page makes no claim about opening date, alloy, load capacity, production duration or lifecycle benefit.

Sources

1
MX3DSolstice Bridge case (opens externally)
2
Gemeente AmsterdamCivil structures (opens externally)

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