26|APUNTES The bridge in Bucaramanga: iconic image of the Colombian city The Ninth Street Viaduct, in the capital city of the department of Santander, in Colombia, has become a symbol of the city’s identity by improving communications through connecting the city with its expanding urban areas. Its poetic architecture and a lighting by Elias Cisneros, Director at 333 Luxes, make this bridge and adjacent roads an urban element that everybody is proud and thankfull bTecause it has improved significantly its quality of life. o make this bridge Department leaded by Gloria Duran and a reality, many EME Engineering Company took part in professionals came into the design of the electrical installation. play. Backed by the Meanwhile, the studio 333 Luxes Municipality of the city devised a concept for the lighting and the Government of project as well as the work per se. They the State of Santander, based it on creating a bond between the Company assigned to carry out the users and the roadway through the work was Mexpresa, led by the light. A lighting design representing Pixels that project images, colors and identity The tension cables of the bridge are a clear example of this vitality. Whereas during the day they present themselves as structural elements that highlight it and give it distinction, at night, they have a very interesting socio-cultural function through a design of RGBW pixels, installed in the central section of said tension cables. These small LEDs form a large canvas where videos, with relevant messages engineer Arturo Pérez. 333 Luxes, headed by the architect Elías Cisneros, was in charge of the lighting design. The engineers from the Public Lighting the vitality of the city of Bucaramanga was suggested so that the inhabitants could identify with the project and make it own.