📋 Tender Overview
The Fairway Agency is developing level crossing safety on a large scale even taking into account the appearance of level crossing warning devices in the environment and their aesthetics. We do not want stalls that attract too much attention but want them to fit into the Finnish cultural landscape.In the spring of 2018 the Finnish Railways launched a collaboration with Markku Karjalainen Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering at the Tampere University Association TUNI on the architecture student idea competition. The aim of the idea competition was to improve the railway environment with a new level crossing warning booth model. The compulsory course for advanced architecture students sought new aesthetics along the track taking into account the specific technical requirements of the level crossing warning facility equipment space.Three works designed by architecture students Julia Lahtinen Tuulia Kivist and Suvi Perttula were chosen as the winners of the anonymously evaluated competition by a jury appointed jointly by the Tampere University Association TUNI and the Fairway Agency.These works in the idea competition were refined in 2019 with more detailed construction plans on the basis of which the construction of the stalls was tendered. Now in the autumn of 2020 the first new types of stalls have been installed for production use on the rail network.
