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OLD GASOMETER NEWLY
POLISHED
Steel Construction for a 360°
Panorama
The link between the businessman
Wolfgang Schweidtweiler from
Pforzheim (Germany) and the panorama artist made it possible that
the 100-year-old gasometer
threatened by demolition can now
be used in such a spectacular way.
The former gas storage facility has
been transformed to an extraordinary event area by a completely
new interior design. A steel construction of around 35 m with a
diameter of 40 m has been built on
top of an approximately 6 m high
massive ground floor. Since the
end of 2014, the 360° panoramas of
the Berlin artist Asisi have been
exhibited inside the building.
Construction
18 radially moving truss girders
which are connected together by a
compression ring at the ridge and a
tension ring at the upper and lower
chord form the main structure of the
roof. Pressure tubes and diagonals
arranged around it form the roof
panel.
The primary structure of the façade
is made up of 18 bracket and façade
supports which are arranged in a
grid of 10°. The stiffening of the
cylinder is guaranteed by the arrangement of horizontal ring stiffeners in connection with compression and tensile-rigid diagonals.
Gasometer Pforzheim from bird's-eye view
Panometer after the opening (Photo: supporting structure - engineering office Knapp)
To be able to determine the unevenly distributed wind load as realistically as possible, the entire main
structure has been modeled spatially with RFEM.
Structural engineering steel constructions
Ingenieurbüro Knapp, Gernsbach,
Germany; www.tragwerk-knapp.de
Ingenieurbüro Schnur, Waldmohr,
Germany; www.ib-schnur.de
The following companies participated in the construction:
Structural engineering track system
Büro für Leichtbau - Tritthardt +
Richter, Radolfzell, Germany
www.tapweb.de/en
Client
Parkhotel Pforzheim GmbH & Co.
KG, Deimlingerstraße 32-36
75175 Pforzheim, Germany
www.gasometer-pforzheim.de
Architect
Gunter Schwarz, Eppingen, Germany
www.g.schwarz-architekturbuero.de
Construction management
PSB Ingenieurbüro Ehrle Vivas
Hohenfels-Liggersdorf, Germany
Structural engineering solid
construction
Kreiling Krieger Lietzow - Beratende
Ingenieure – Pforzheim, Germany
www.kkl-bi.de
Software
Dlubal Software GmbH
Tiefenbach, Germany
www.dlubal.com
3D model with deformations in RFEM (Screenshot: Dlubal)
(Photo: PSB Ingenieurbüro Ehrle Vivas)
Dlubal Software GmbH
Software for Structural and Dynamic Analysis