4.5.1 Senckenberg Turm – Frankfurt (Germany)

Course subject(s) 4. Detail + Tolerances

Fancy a trip back to Frankfurt? We did! The Senckenberg Turm is a 106-meter (348 feet) office tower completed in early 2022. Ulrich and Marcel visited the building while it was still under construction. The expert they chat to about life in a real construction site is Jürgen Schmidt.

Building: Senckenberg Turm
Location: Frankfurt, Germany
Year: 2022
Architect: Cyrus Moser Architects
Façade engineer: Drees and Sommer
Partner: Dipl. -Ing. Jürgen Schmidt, Managing Director at APP: Fassaden aus Metall + Glas

Watch, enjoy and flesh out Ulrich’s stickies below with your own notes.

Realising a façade detail

At the building site:

Which system?

How fixed to main structure

Tolerances

Movement

Construction:

Logistics

Transport

Scaffolding

Instantiation

On site:

Trouble shooting

Safety

Finish

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