project

Tour de la Liberte

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General information

  • Location address
    Paris
  • Location country
    France
  • Year of construction
    1989
  • Name of the client/building owner
    Production Tuileries '89
  • Function of building
    Exhibition
  • Degree of enclosure
    Open structure
  • Climatic zone
    Temperate - cold winters and mild summers

Description

The Freedom Towers project designed for the bicentenary of the French Revolution. Originally erected at the Tuilleries, one of the 2 Freedom Towers has since been relocated in front of the Saint-Dié-des-Vosges Town Hall.
Two 30m high skeletal towers supporting various thin planes of PVC membranes stressed onto tension braced steel the largest being 32m x 10m.

Description of the environmental conditions

Material of the cover

  • Cable-net/Fabric/Hybrid/Foil
    Fabric
  • Material Fabric/Foil
    Polyester
  • Material coating
    PVC

Main dimensions and form

  • Maximum height (m)
    32
  • Total width (m)
    30

Duration of use

  • Temporary or permanent structure
    Temporary

Involved companies

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