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Landmark of Hemer
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Hyperbolid consisting of 240 straight timber members
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Juebergtower at the End of a long flight of stairs
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Support-free tower interior, only thefiligree latting supports
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Timber latting used to filter light
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Upwardly decreasing number of wood slats
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Site plan
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Section
Panorama Tower Landscape Exhibition
Birk und Heilmeyer Architekten. Hemer, Germany
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Name of work in English
Panorama Tower Landscape Exhibition
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Name of work in original language
Jübergturm Landesgartenschau
Prize year
EUmies Awards 2011
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Work Location
Hemer, Germany
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Studio
Birk und Heilmeyer Architekten
EUmies Awards 2011 Nominees
Collaborators
Structural engineering: Knippers Helbig Advanced Engineering
Program
Landscape
Completion
2010
Visible from far away, the Panorama tower is prominently positioned at the end of a long flight of stairs, marking the end point of the city and the transition to landscape. The upwards expanding shape of the tower reacts immediately to the local circumstances; the forested hill, the urban centre line and a 360degrees view. The tower comprises a hyperboloid of straight timber members. The foot of the tower has been kept slim with its dimension of around 6 m. Inside the structure, five flights of winding steel stairs lead to the observation deck (9 m in diameter) at a height of 23.5 m.