Coordinates: 41°25′02″N 2°06′51″E / 41.41722°N 2.11417°E
Torre de Collserola is a uniquely designed tower located on the Tibidabo hill in the Serra de Collserola, in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. It was designed by architect
The tenth floor of the pod is open to the public.
Construction
The tower has a hollow slip-formed, reinforced concrete main shaft of only 4.5 m diameter, which reduces to a mere 3 m to hold a radio mast which telescopes from 2.7 m to 0,7m. The thirteen floors are surrounded by a perimeter of open stainless steel grilles and suspended from the shaft by three primary vertical steel trusses.
The total weight of the tower is 3,000 tons.
A large amount of cables keep the tower upright:
- The lower guys are composed three series of 180 parallel strand cables (15 mm diameter) made from pre-tensioned high-strength steel with a polyethylene covering, each;
- The upper guys are made of three series of 7 aramid fibre cables in parallel (56 mm diameter), each terminated with a resin socket. The three upper cables have a combined breaking strength of 4,200 tons.
See also
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- Torre de Collserola
- Foster and Partners
- Collserola Tower in the Structurae database
- Torre de Collserola at Factoría Urbana: Photos and technical information about the tower
- Torre de Collserola: connecting Barcelona
- Aramid cable termination design
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