GISSELFELD KLOSTERS SKOVE
COPENHAGEN

July 2021 - The 45-meter Forest Tower was designed by architects at EFFEKT, Copenhagen. Located in Denmark, the tower is reminiscent of an hourglass—a cylindrical shape where the bottom and top are maximized, while the middle is laced into a hyperboloid.

This narrow middle allows visitors to move very close to three beech trees growing inside the tower. Vertical Cor-Ten steel tubes are rotated 120 degrees to support the tower. As visitors rise through the spiraling structure, the distance between the ramps changes until they reach a platform 140 meters above sea level, where one has a 360-degree view of the landscape.

The main structure is made from maintenance-free Cor-Ten steel and the ramp is made of local South Zeeland oak from Bregentved Estate and Gisselfeld Monastery.

Photo: EFFEKT Rasmus Hjortshoj