Oscar-von-Miller Tower
OSCAR VON MILLER TOWER
Deubzer Konig & Rimmel Architekten
LOCATION
Garching bei München, Germany
CATEGORY
Watching Tower
Text description provided by architect.
As seen in the site map, the Oskar von Miller Tower has its oval ground plan aligned in east-west direction; two cubic bodies are inserted into the building from the south, the entrance on the ground floor with its two large sliding doors, above that the measuring box.
This is for meteorologists to maintain the facility and evaluate the measurement results. Access is additionally possible via a spiral staircase on the east side.
The weather tower consists of horizontally stacked glass rings, which are staggered by measurement levels (5, 10, 20, and 35m) with four booms pointing north, south, east, and west.
The top measurement level is arranged vertically as a single measurement point.
The instruments are fastened to the booms on sledges, so that they can be pulled into the inside of the tower for maintenance and testing.
In the west vertex of the buildings’ cubature contains the only geometric point which is consistently vertical. Apart from that, the rings continuously narrow from the bottom to the top.
