Sunset Snapshot | ThyssenKrupp Test Tower

finkistinger (62)in #photofeed • 4 years ago

The Thyssenkrupp test tower in Rottweil is a 246 meter high elevator test tower for express and high-speed elevators. Built between 2014 and 2017 by ThyssenKrupp Elevator, the tower has a height of 232 meters, making it Germany's highest visitor platform and the world's second-highest test tower for elevator systems. Including the basement floors, which are also used as test environment for the elevator shafts, the shaft has a total length of 275.5 meters.

The tower has won numerous architecture, engineering and design awards and offers some unique selling points. For example, it is the first building in the world that can be made to vibrate by a pendulum inside the tower shaft. In this way real wind loads are simulated. The shaft is covered with a special glass fibre textile along a spiral tube, which determines the actual outer shape of the tower. The tower is thus also the highest textile-clad building in the world.