Bog Crane
Photos: Tõnu Tunnel
Bog Crane
Carrying design pylon
Tiksoja tee, Tartumaa
Design 2021-2022
Construction 2022
Opening 2023
Architecture: Sille Pihlak, Siim Tuksam (PART architects)
Engineering: Bollinger+Grohmann
Client: Elering AS
Contractors: Empower AS, Leonhard Weiss OÜ
Links:
https://elering.ee/sookurg
https://tartu.postimees.ee/7595370/elering-pustitas-tartu-linna-serva-disainmasti-sookurg
Research article: Tuksam, Siim; Pihlak, Sille; Orlinski, Adam; Heimrath, Moritz (2024). The Bog Characters: A New Generation of High Voltage Power Pylons. Proceedings of the IASS 2024 Symposium: IASS 2024 Symposium. Ed. Philippe Block, Giulia Boller, Catherine DeWolf, Jacqueline Pauli, Walter Kaufmann. Zürich Switzerland: International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures (IASS).
https://app.iass2024.org/files/IASS_2024_Paper_529.pdf
The Bog Crane is our second design pylon and a manifest to the reconstruction of Estonia’s high voltage transmission lines and the disconnecting of them from our eastern neighbor.
We’re developing a so-called flock of bog critters, with a legible lineage and DNA.