The team had won an international competition organised in 2009 by Stadt Leverkusen and Regionale 2010.
The Campusbrücke is the first of two 100m-long bridges designed to provide improved connections across a broad area of railway lines that divide the established heart of the town and new development to the east.
The structural design makes use of the frequent opportunities to place supports between the railway lines. The beam depths vary according to span length, giving the structure a varying wave form of the structure that reflects the forces.
The pedestrian enclosure is formed with a series of vertical steel and timber fins, framing the views between the old and new towns while appearing as floating wave form in elevation.
The Campusbrücke is currently in a functional but intermediate state whilst work on a major re-routing of Deutsche Bahn railway lines takes place over the next four years. Once this is complete, rotating the westernmost span through 180° will see the bridge reach its final alignment.
The second bridge, the Bahnhofsbrücke, is scheduled to be completed in summer 2014.
