Golden Architecture in City Sculpture Park, 2007

Issuer: KME Germany AG; Editor: Klaus Sikora, s-works



A temporary construction project has been specially created to mark the occasion of the internationally renowned outdoor exhibition Skulptur Projekte Münster 07.



As a model for thoroughly successful temporary architecture, the switch+ information pavilion lucidly illustrates the urban focus of Skulptur Projekte Münster 07. Planned and supervised by Münster firm modularbeat, a twelve meter high parallelepiped, which is clad on all sides with the new copper alloy TECU® Gold, was built adjacent to the Museum of Art and Cultural History and the exhibition project office on an open square that has been unused up to now. The project makes interesting references to its direct surroundings and its own function. The new façade material is in this context an ideal choice. The golden surface sets off distinctive accents and attracts a great deal of attention. As with the entire range of TECU® brand copper products, TECU® Gold offers astounding design possibilities in combination with many other materials. Behind the elegant surface there are clear economic benefits: TECU® Gold has all the advantages typical of copper such as easy processing and an incomparably long life. In addition to outstanding mechanical abrasion resistance, the material has shown unsurpassed corrosion resistance and excellent stability and rigidity. TECU® Gold also has the unique communicative element of any pure copper surface by which the original bright gold colour of the surface undergoes its own characteristic changes when exposed to weathering. The initial matting results in a matte, light yellow tone, which later gradually evolves into a darker, lively golden hue.





Switch+ is, amazingly, the first architecture project implemented by modulorbeat up to now. Considering the attention-getting value of the project, the renown of the event Skulptur Projekte Münster 07 and the general positive reception they have earned, it can safely be assumed that it won’t be their last. The beat goes on.

Object: switch +, info-pavillon for the Skulptur Projekte Münster 07 exhibition
Planning/Realisation: modulorbeat, Marc Günnewig and Jan Kampshoff, Münster
Completion: June 2007
Dismantling: September 2007
Façade material: TECU® Gold, Copper-aluminium alloy
Manufacturer: KME Germany AG
Perforation: BSW Anlagenbau, Everswinkel (D)
Processing in construction: rückwerk, Münster



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Skulptur Projekte Münster 07 exhibition architects : modulorbeat

German museum building : Folkwang Museum, Essen

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