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PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE SABETJOHK
PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE SABETJOHK
Birtavarre, Norway
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PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE SABETJOHK
Birtavarre, Norway
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2011
The County of Kåfjord took the initiative, in connection with an increased focus on tourism, to set up a new pedestrian bridge over the Gorsa canyon (Northern Europe’s deepest canyon) where the rivers Guolasjohka and Magerelva meet in a spectacular waterfall. The bridge completes the hiking-paths that take visitors around the remains of an old mining site; this new structure performs as a panoramic viewing deck and bungee-jump base point. The design-build conditions such as the site complex accessibility, limited building budget, fast-track schedule and unstable weather conditions, gave little or no tolerance for mistake or correction due to unforeseen variables during the process. In fact, such a process was never attempted before, and it almost failed completely in its most critical moment: the helicopter lift. The main structure was engineered in light weight aluminum pipes to be assembled in one piece, on flat ground, some kilometers away from the actual site; then transported and placed over the waterfall airborne. This process imposed a maximum 4 tons weight limit for the 53m span The bridge was realized with a unique collaboration between engineer, contractor and architect from start to end.
Projectgroup: Ghilardi+Hellsten Arkitekter/Dipl.-Ing. Florian Kosche as/Bitschnau GmbH
Projectgroup: Ghilardi+Hellsten Arkitekter/Dipl.-Ing. Florian Kosche as/Bitschnau GmbH
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