Water Tower (Ciechanów)
The water tower in Ciechanów is an unused expansion tank of the municipal water network in Ciechanów ( Masovian Voivodeship ), a city in Poland with around 45,000 inhabitants.
The water tower was built on one of the highest points in the town based on a design by the Warsaw architect Jerzy Michał Bogusławski in 1972. The statics were created by Dr. Jerzy Wilbik, Ing.Stanisław Gajowniczek and Ing. Bohdan Szczeszek.
The expansion tank was designed in the shape of a torus made of sheet steel . It stands on a structure in the form of a rotational hyperboloid , a hyperboloid construction .
The content of the container is 1560 m 3 , the height of the structure 22 m, the diameter at the bottom 11.25 m, at the top 17.70 m, at the narrowest point about 7.00 m.
The pumps and valves were housed in an underground chamber that forms the foundation slab.
The tower was in operation for about ten years and has been abandoned since the 1980s. The ideas of converting the water tower into a viewing platform or a tower restaurant could not be implemented due to the risk of collapse of the rusted structure.
The design was awarded a prize in 1977 by the Minister for Construction and Building Materials.
literature
- Zbiornik na wodę w Ciechanowie, Architektura monthly, No. 3/1976.
- Jan Kazimierz Korzybski, Ciechanowskie pamiątki przeszłości , Ciechanów 2000, ISBN 8390502828
- Ewa Lodzińska, Waldemar Wieczorek: Mazowieckie: przewodnik + atlas: Warszawa: Demart, 2012, ISBN 9788374277327
Coordinates: 52 ° 52 ′ 7.2 " N , 20 ° 35 ′ 49.9" E