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CASE STUDY

requirements placed upon
the first of three viewing
platforms to be redesigned
at a height of 57.6 metres
was to make it more attrac-
tive to visitors. The design
provided by the Paris office
Moatti-Riviére emerged as
the winner of an architec-
ture competition.
The Gustave Eiffel Pavil-
ion and the Ferrié Pavilion
complete with a museum
as well as an information
and service area were each
reconstructed between two
pillars. In the case of the
already existing 58 Tour
Eiffel restaurant the glass
facade was brought in line
with those present in the
other two pavilions. Glass
surfaces facing inside and
outside, a 130 square me-
tre glass floor, which opens
up a view of the Champ-de-
Mars below and a 2.5 me-
tre high, surrounding glass
balustrade, are not recom-
mended for people who
suffer from severe vertigo,
but delight all other visitors
while offering the greatest
possible transparency in
all directions. The double-
kinked glass facades of the
pavilions follow the angle
of inclination of the pillars
of 17 degrees.
Naturally, a glass facade
that is eight metres high
and more than 20 metres
wide, concave and
convex, cannot be
First floor of the Eiffel Tower. manufactured in one
Glass facades with double
bends were realised with simple, piece. For the model-
cylindrically bent, rectangular ling of the individual
glass elements. panels, the free-form
surface had to be
dissected into indi-

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