丨德国斯图加特丨UN Studio,Inside Outside团队

Mercedes Benz Museum,

Stuttgart

Place

: Stuttgart, Germany

Client

: Mercedes Benz

Architect

: UN Studio, Amsterdam

Scope of work

: Darkening, sun- and viewfiltering curtains, brush wall

Date

: 2004 - 2006

Inside Outside was invited along with a team of designers, architects and landscape architects to join the existing design team. Our designs had to meet the strong design conditions head-on, by trying to complement these prevailing situations. Subtle curtains were inserted alongside rich contrasts, and a wall finish was designed which emphasized structure rather than colour. These designs were restrained compared to the restaurant-curtain on the eighth floor, that was able to develop into a colourful, three-dimensional and changing textile.

Forming one of the walls around the multipurpose room, we placed a heavy, grey, longhaired mohair-velvet curtain with a 'sauerkraut’ (choucroute) seam, lined with a transparent plastic sheet with a black lacquer seam. On parallel tracks, sun-reflective silver voiles with broad, white seams encircle the entire space. In the Espresso Bar, a concave brush wall acts as the backdrop to the concrete interior, adding a three-dimensional 'veil' to the peripheral space. The brush surface ‘scatters’ the soundwaves and tones down the acoustic of the room.

Seven floors up, a lime green finned curtain with a black 'sauerkraut' backing lines an open atrium and envelopes both restaurant and lounge. This design reacts to the folded white ceiling and its opacity secures the dim lighting conditions of the exhibition space below while allowing the public to peep through its half porous surface.

Team Inside Outside

: Petra Blaisse with Anky Adriaanse, Peter Niessen, Martina Prokop