Shukhov tower on the Oka River
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The world’s only hyperboloid electricity pylon is located in Russia, in the suburb of Nizhniy Novgorod, on the left bank of the Oka River nearby Dzerzhinsk. The unique 128-meter tower served as a pylon of the passage of the 110 kV NiGRES electric main over the Oka River. The tower-pylon consists of five 25-meter steel lattice sections, the forms of which are the single-cavity hyperboloids of revolution. The sections of pylon are made of straight profiles which ends rest against circular foundations. The tower stands on the circular concrete foundation with a diameter of 30 meters.
In 1927-1929 six hyperboloid pylons of the electric mains were built on the Oka River banks according to the project of the Russian engineer and scientist Vladimir Shukhov. Today only one rare structure of the surprising beauty has preserved. The Shukhov Tower on the Oka River is protected by the state as a memorial of architecture.
See also
External links
- [Photos Shukhov towers on the Oka Riever]
- [3D model Shukhov tower on the Oka River]
- [Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 22.06.2005]
- [Konstruktionform. Nigres-Stromleitungsmast]
- [Invention of Hyperboloid Structures]
References
- [Brumfield, William Cruft. The Origins of Modernism in Russian Architecture,] Berkeley, University of California Press, 1991.
- [Elizabeth Cooper English]: [“Arkhitektura i mnimosti”: The origins of Soviet avant-garde rationalist architecture in the Russian mystical-philosophical and mathematical intellectual tradition”,] a dissertation in architecture, 264 p., University of Pennsylvania, 2000.
- [Rainer Graefe]: [“Vladimir G. Šuchov 1853-1939 - Die Kunst der sparsamen Konstruktion.”], S.192, Stuttgart, DVA, 1990. [link]
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