Musée Atelier Audemars Piguet
Le Brassus, Switzerland
Client
Audemars Piguet
Typology
Culture
Size m2/ft2
2,373 / 25,543
Status
Completed
LINEAR PROGRAM — Returning to the space's program BIG took the linear sequence of exhibition spaces, and organized it as a single trajectory. To fit the long string of spaces onto the compact site, BIG coiled it up into a double spiral. That motion becomes the flow of the exhibition.
Exhibition Route — The exhibition route connects the new spiral with the existing museum building.
Exhibition Sequence — The existing museum building with its original workshops is connected to the exhibition sequence through an entrance hall positioned at the front.
View and Light — The spiral is lifted and suppressed to allow for daylight to illuminate the workstations and for watchmakers to enjoy views to the valley.
Connecting Landscape — A landscape carpet is elegantly draped over the sloped site.
"Unlike most machines and most buildings today that have a disconnect between the body and the mind, the hardware and the software, for the Musée Atelier Audemars Piguet we have attempted to completely integrate the geometry and the performance, the form and the function, the space and the structure, the interior and the exterior in a symbiotic whole. It's an architecture in which the form is inseparable from its content, exposed like the gears and springs in a skeletonized open work."Bjarke Ingels - Founder & Creative Director, BIG
Partner in Charge
Bjarke Ingels
Thomas Christoffersen
Daniel Sundlin
Beat Schenk
Project Manager
Simon Scheller
Rune Hansen
Project Architect
Matthew Oravec
Project Designer
Otilia Pupezeanu
Project Leader, Concept
Ji-Young Yoon
Project Team
Jakob Sand
Blake Smith
Jason Wu
Kristian Hindsberg
Adrien Mans
Alessandra Peracin
Ashton Stare
Claire Thomas Spiller
Dammy Lee
Eva Maria Mikkelsen
Evan Wiskup
Jan Casimir
Julien Beauchamp-Roy
Marcin Fejcak
Marie Lançon
Maureen Rahman
Maxime Le Droupeet
Natalie Kwee Ming Yie
Pascal Loschetter
Teodor Javanaud Emden
Sara Ibrahim Abed
Tore Banke
Ute Rinnebach
Veronica Lalli
Vivien Cheng
Yaziel Juarbe
Høgni Laksafoss
Iva Ulam
Awards
MIPIM Best Cultural and Sports Infrastructure, 2022
Ernst & Sohn Ingenieurbaupreis, 2022
Kyoto Design Award, Environment Design of the Year, 2021
AIA NY, Honor Award in Architecture, 2021
Prix Bilan de l’immobilier Public Buildings, 2020
German Design Award, 2020
Interior Design Best of Year Winner Museum/Art Gallery, 2020
Architizer A+ Awards Museum Popular Winner, 2020
Collaborators
CCHE
Atelier Brueckner
Luchinger und Meyer
HG Merz
Muller Illien
BIG Ideas