Case Studies

The multi-award-winning project is almost 50 m tall, upward-spiralling Mercedes Benz Museum forms the centrepiece of the new Mercedes Benz World scheme that is taking shape just outside the gates of the automobile manufacturer’s core plant in Stuttgart-Untertürkheim.

Clover-leaf on plan, the façade wraps itself in a spiral around the building. The 6,200 sqm window areas consist of steel stick system units of widely varying geometrical form. The units house panes, held by pressure bead, with continuous screen-printed dot matrix. Some overhead units are also incorporated. The 8,000 sqm sheet cladding between the individual levels comprises mainly radially curved metal panels, with some spherically curved units.The metal cladding is provided with an embossed finish that runs over the entire building. The roof incorporates some 600 sqm of glazing. The structural frame features Vierendeel girders welded together from steel sections.