White Tower (Tor Alva), Mulegns - Concept 2024

Name: White Tower (Tor Alva) Trailer, Mulegns
Uploaded: 2024-01-20T08:00:00+01:00
Duration: T2M21S
Description: Trailer for the White Tower (Tor Alva), a 30-meter, 3D-printed concrete structure in Mulegns, Switzerland. Designed by Michael Hansmeyer and Benjamin Dillenburger with ETH Zurich’s Digital Building Technologies, it hosts performances for the Origen Foundation.

At 30 meters in height, Tor Alva is the tallest 3D-printed structure in the world. Set in the remote village of Mulegns in the Swiss Alps, the White Tower hosts music and theater performances and acts as a beacon for the region. The White Tower's central design element consists of 32 branched Y-shaped, 3D-printed columns. Each column has a unique system of ornament consisting of larger undulating ribs and a smaller material-driven texture.

Designed by architects Benjamin Dillenburger and Michael Hansmeyer, Tor Alva is a vertical enfilade consisting of six floors. These abstract, atmospherically dense spaces range from dark and enclosed rooms at the bottom to light and airy ones on top. Visitors ascend a spiral staircase through a series of colonnades to reach a panoramic performance space on the top floor.