Vitra slide tower
The Vitra Slide Tower , also called Vitra Slide Tower , is a 30.74 meter high observation and slide tower as well as a work of art . The tubular steel tower, located near the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein , was designed by the German artist Carsten Höller and officially opened on June 18, 2014. The slide tower has been open to the public since June 19, 2014.
location
The Vitra slide tower is located on the northwestern edge of the Vitra site, south of the visitor parking and the north in 1994 by Álvaro Siza Vieira built production hall of brick . Bundesstraße 3 runs in the immediate vicinity of the slide tower . The slide tower is accessible via the 500-meter-long panorama path redesigned by Álvaro Siza and is located between the Vitra House and the former fire station designed by Zaha Hadid . The tower is part of a large-scale redesign of the Vitra campus and is to have a new entrance building in the northwest. The background to this planning is the development of the city via tram line 8 from December 2014.
description
The Vitra slide tower is formed by three tubular steel supports that taper towards each other and at the intersection of which there is a rotating clock with a diameter of six meters. The supports measure 40 centimeters in outer diameter; the outermost column forms an angle of 59.5 degrees with the horizontal.
The observation tower is accessible via a staircase between the props. The staircase is interrupted by eight intermediate platforms and ends on the viewing platform at a height of 17 meters . The height of the banister measures just like the parapet height of the viewing platform 1.3 meters.
The partially covered viewing platform in the form of an inverted truncated cone measures 2.9 meters in height and 7.7 meters in outer diameter. It houses the starting point of a 38-meter-long, traffic light-regulated, conical-spiral tube slide with a six-meter-long run-out section. With a sliding speed between 3 and 4 meters per second, the sliding time is 10 to 12 seconds. The tubular slide segments have a diameter of 80 centimeters. While the lower part is made of steel, the upper part of the tube is made of transparent Plexiglas .
Rubber mats were used to line the standing and surrounding area of the slide tower.
The number-free clock at the top rotates on its own axis and lights up together with the viewing platform at night. The lettering of the Vitra company is attached to the hour hand , which together with the dot on the minute hand forms the company's logo for a moment every 65 minutes. According to the company, the clock focuses on the time, but is not used for practical reading.
Web links
- Official website for the Vitra slide tower
- Vitra slide tower. In: Structurae
- Vitra press release on the Vitra slide tower , published on June 18, 2014
Individual evidence
- ^ Hannes Lauber, Badische Zeitung : Vitra Slide Tower. New attraction: observation tower with 38-meter slide , article from May 5, 2014
- ↑ Thomas Geuder, austria-architects: New Architecture at Vitra , June 18, 2014, accessed on June 23, 2014
Coordinates: 47 ° 36 '7.6 " N , 7 ° 36" 54.1 " E