Ingemar designs the floating structures for the new Gambarogno port.
The Milanese company collaborated on the construction of the new port on Lake Maggiore, designing floating docks and piers. The facility will accommodate 280 vessels between 8 and 20 meters.
Ingemar collaborated on the construction of the new port of Gambarogno, on the Swiss shores of Lake Maggiore. The port's construction was the final stage of a long and demanding project undertaken by the Swiss municipality in 2016 and supported with a total budget of 19 million Swiss francs. The involvement of several specialized companies in multiple complementary contracts led first to the construction of the false steel seabed, consisting of enormous three-dimensional submerged structures hinged near the shore, equipped with vertical piles to anchor the pontoons. Subsequently, the installation of a massive floating breakwater approximately 480 meters long, approximately 130 meters from the shore, and pontoons with fingers for mooring vessels. The construction of the new port, designed by Studio Sciarini of Vira Gambarogno, saw the full collaboration of the Consorzio Officine Ghidoni and Implenia Svizzera for the submerged steel structures, Matteo Muttoni Costruzioni for the floating breakwaters, Ingemar for the floating piers and docks and Comar for the assembly of the underwater structures and the installation of the floating piers.
The new port facility also includes parking, accommodation, and land-based services currently being completed, as well as a public promenade and a series of stairs, ramps, walkways, and piers that form and complete the pedestrian connections between the various parts of the port and the usable spaces. The new facility's layout provides for the mooring of 280 vessels ranging in length from 8 to 20 meters on Ingemar floating structures: a total of 440 meters of 3-meter-wide piers, a 96-meter-long and 4,50-meter-wide pier, and 137 mooring fingers. The modules are discontinuously floating and finished in fine exotic wood to minimize environmental impact and ensure the necessary water circulation at the surface level of the basin. The structures are made of hot-dip galvanized steel, while the floating units are made of concrete with an expanded polystyrene core, ensuring buoyancy and excellent stability.
The considerable distance between the anchoring piles (approximately 40 meters) and the curved shape of the mooring jetties required special structural design, while the significant difference in level of the basin (6 meters) and the resulting relative planimetric movement between the floating dock, breakwater, and lateral arms influenced the shape and size of the walkways accessing and connecting the floating complex. The port's central pier is connected to the mainland by a 24-meter aluminum walkway with a wooden deck. The other end of the pier is connected to the outer breakwater by a sliding jetty, while long curved walkways, guided on the underlying surface, were installed between the central pier and the two lateral arms of the breakwater to allow for relative movement between the various floating structures.
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