We’ve seen showrooms and museums before, but not like this. Simply it’s a Mercedes-Benz Museum, perfection in engineering and quality in details. Located in Stuttgart Germany, and designed by The UN Studio:
The Museum’s sophisticated geometry synthesizes structural and programmatic organizations resulting in a new landmark building celebrating a legendary car. The geometric model employed is based on the trefoil organization. The building’s program is distributed over the surfaces which ascend incrementally from ground level, spiraling around a central atrium. The Museum experience begins with visitors traveling up through the atrium to the top floor from where they follow the two main paths that unfold chronologically as they descend through the building. The two main trajectories, one being the car and truck collection and the other consisting of historical displays called the Legend rooms, spiral downwards on the perimeter of the display platforms, intersecting with each other at several points allowing the visitor to change routes.
Ben van Berkel, co-founder and director of UN Studio says:
The Mercedes-Benz Museum combines a number of radical spatial principles with each other and thereby creates a completely new typology.
The most conspicuous feature resulting from this novel approach is the route visitors take. Their tour of exploration does not start at ground level in the entrance area but at the topmost level where they are taken by lifts. From here, they can go on one of two tours running through the museum from the top downwards. The two routes meet at each level so that the visitor can decide time and again anew whether to continue on the Legend or Collection tour.
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