Kiln Tower for the Brickworks Museum in Cham (Switzerland)
Boltshauser Architekten 

Kiln Tower for the Brickworks Museum in Cham (Switzerland)

Boltshauser Architekten 


The tower, measuring eight meters tall, functions as viewing deck, exhibition space, and furnace. Timber boards are added to the pre-stressed pieces of adobe and steel that form the walls to make their transportation easier in case of disassembly...


Torre Kiln para el Museo Brickworks
Kiln Tower for the Brickworks Museum

Cliente Client
Verein Ofenturm
Ziegelei-Museum

Arquitectos Architects
Boltshauser Architekten

Equipo Team
Robert Gentner, Regina Pötzinger (diseño design), con alumnos de with students from TU Munich and ETH Zurich

Consultores Consultants
SEFORB SARL (estructura structure); Reflexion (iluminación lighting consultant); LEHMAG junto con estudiantes de varias universidades together with students from various universities (tierra compactada rammed earth); Terrabloc (tapial earth brick masonry); Ziegelei Schumacher (proveedor de tierra earth material); Nüssli (madera y metal timber and metal); Jakob (pretensado prestressing engineer); Keller Unternehmungen (cimentación foundation); KIBA Holding (ingeniería civil civil engineer); Ineichen (construcción master builder)