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Tuesday, 14 September 2010

Jübergtower Hemer - Birk und Heilmeyer Architects

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This 23.5m high lookout tower over the city of Hemer, Germany, takes advantage of a hill over the town.

1281452144-04-juebergtower-72dpi-375x500 It uses timber members in a simple hyperboloid structure, a structural system that spreads the load evenly through the structure, with a geometry allowing the spreading cylinder to be constructed entirely out of straight, inclined timber members—none are perpendicular.

1281452194-08-juebergtower-72dpi-528x396 Designed by Birk und Heilmeyer Architekten, with engineering by  with Knippers Helbig Advanced Engineering,  it was opened in April this year.

Read more about it at the Arch Daily site, from where these pictures come.

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1 comment:

  1. Dave Mann14 Sept 2010, 12:33:00

    Wow

    This is the sort of building that Howard Roark would have built, I am sure....

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