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Mercedes-Benz Museum: Architecture & Elevators

The Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart, Germany was designed by Ben van Berkel and features over 160 vehicles on display from the earliest automobiles to concept cars. The museum building's architecture incorporates spiraling ramps and staircases to provide different perspectives of viewing the vehicles. Visitors can experience one of the most remarkable elevators in the world, which are mounted on vertical rails on the walls and take less than 30 seconds to travel between floors while playing the sound of a racing car.

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Mercedes-Benz Museum: Architecture & Elevators

The Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart, Germany was designed by Ben van Berkel and features over 160 vehicles on display from the earliest automobiles to concept cars. The museum building's architecture incorporates spiraling ramps and staircases to provide different perspectives of viewing the vehicles. Visitors can experience one of the most remarkable elevators in the world, which are mounted on vertical rails on the walls and take less than 30 seconds to travel between floors while playing the sound of a racing car.

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MERCEDES BENZ MUSEUM – BEN VAN BERKEL

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SRUTHIAYA S
CLIENT - DaimlerChrysler Immobilien , Berlin
LOCATION - Mercedes Strasse 100, Stuttgart, Germany
ARCHITECT – Ben van berkel ( UN STUDIO)
BUILDING AREA - 35,000 m2
PROGRAMME - Car museum, shop, restaurant, offices, auditorium
STATUS - Realised May 2006

VERTICAL TRANSPORTATION
• Elevator
• Escalator
• Staircase
• Ramp

The Mercedes-Benz Museum is a cultural landmark that unites the past, present and future of this legendary car. Located
beside Mercedes-Benz’s factory in Stuttgart-Untertürkheim, the building stands like a new gateway to the city. The
Museum celebrates the automobile invented by Carl Benz in 1886: it relates the history of transportation and tells its
stories, bringing the vehicle alive by placing it in the context of technology, day-to-day life, social history and popular
culture. With more than 160 vehicles of all types on display ranging from some of the oldest automobiles ever built to
legendary racing cars to futuristic concepts, research vehicles and vertical transportation cabs. For that reason, the
Mercedes-Benz Museum tops the list of the elevators that changed everything.
The ground floor is provided with the services like escalator ,
elevator and ramp .
And at other upper level ,
we integrate the pedestal into the
architecture. Instead of individual plinths, in the Legend
Rooms we have made semi-circular ramps to generate
different perspectives. You see the cars alternately from
higher, lower, closer and more distant, frontal and more
oblique points of view as you move around them. In the
Collections Rooms you gain access via a high staircase and
then you find yourselves at equal level with the cars.
From this starting point at the top, the +eight level, the visitor
may take one of two spiralling ramps down; the first chain
linking the collection of cars and trucks, and the second the
connecting Mythos rooms, which are the secondary displays
related to the history of Mercedes Benz. The two spiralling
trajectories cross each other continuously, mimicking the
interweaving strands of a DNA helix, thus making it possible for
the visitor to change trajectories.
The tourists who visit the Mercedes-Benz Museum in
Stuttgart have a chance to drive with one of the most
remarkable elevators in the world. In the central museum
hall, the vertical rails were fixed to the walls, on which the
futuristic elevators, which look like large metal capsules, are
mounted. To get up from the ground floor of the museum to
the last floor, the elevator takes less than 30 seconds. This
elevator is astounded by the peculiar shape and interior
design of the cabins.

• Mercedes-Benz Museum, GermanyThe museum is also


designed in a futuristic style, so it is no wonder that you can see
the pills-like, flashy-blown-up elevator cabins in it. The neo-
storey museum building is spiral-shaped. Traditionally, all the
excursions through the museum begin with the lift, as the first
exposition of the museum is presented on the last floor. The
futuristic elevators still have an interesting secret - their ride is
accompanied by the sound of the booming racing car.

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