Interior Development by ATELIER BRÜCKNER in Munich, Germany
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BMW Museum, Munich, Germany
2009
ATELIER BRÜCKNER GmbH
The new BMW Museum had to be integrated into the existing structural fabric of the group headquarters in Munich, where trend-setting architecture already had a presence in 1973 with the ‘Museum Bowl’. The task was to interpret this prominent architectural piece anew and lead it into the 21st century. It was a matter of maintaining the original architectural and experiential qualities of the Museum Bowl, making it suitable for temporary exhibitions, and uniting it with a completely new permanent exhibition area.
The concept follows the key ideas of ‘extension’ and ‘dynamism’. The west wing of the company’s headquarters was gutted and developed into a dynamic exhibition area; the Museum Bowl was architecturally connected to it and staged with the ‘visual symphony’, a 360° display, as an epilogue. The basic theme of the Bowl – continuation of the street in enclosed space – was conceived as a principle of a dynamic architecture. The original idea finds its continuation in an urban spatial experience where a ramp system symbolises mobility.
On an asphalted ‘street’, the visitor is immersed in an urban ambience with houses, squares and bridges. Each one of the seven thematic houses can be entered on different floors. There are common design elements, which consequently appear on all floors, expressing a vertical and thematic arrangement. In this way, every house speaks an individual language, generated from the subject – each house has its own identity.
Conversely, from the exterior, the houses present themselves as homogeneous, luminous bodies with beaming bright glass façades. A ‘mediatecture’ was realised, working with monochrome white LEDs, mounted behind satin-finish windowpanes. At the BMW Platz, a 13m-high airspace in the centre of the permanent exhibition, the LEDs are individually programmable, creating more than 30 possible light displays. This square is the pulsating heart of the exhibition. The architecture is dematerialised and given a new dynamic attitude, with space and exhibits seeming to move.
The BMW Museum has a modern and dynamic design: the design of the automobile world. Like the BMW brand, which represents innovative technology and trend-setting design, the BMW Museum strikes a new path in intertwining architecture, exhibition design and communicative media, with dynamism becoming a principle of the design.
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BMW Museum Munich - Building Information:
Client: BMW AG
Size of project: 12,200m²
Cost: €80 million
Start date: Nov 2006
Completion date: Jun 2008
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