In way , the 149 - year - one-time Swiss watchmaker Audemars Piguet already has its own museum : The township of Le Brassus , where it ’s settle , is full of historic watchmaking workshops . But the iconic party is build its own consecrated museum anyways , and unsurprisingly , it looks just like the intricate movements inside its super - expensive timepieces .
Bjarke Ingels Group , the Dano - American architecture firm that seems to drag every major design rivalry these solar day , just won — yep — another challenger to establish Piguet a museum in Le Brassus next to the company ’s HQ . BIG ’s plans for a museum of haute horlogerie , or fine watchmaking , include an interlock set of circular veranda that are partially imbed in the landscape , forming a ecological succession of expo space that culminate in a central marquee .
And the full internal space is clad in a single sheet of steel covered in governing body , carefully slice to create a glint ceiling . Just like the power train inside Piguet ’s watches , it ’s designed to have a sensation of precision and movement , freeze in distance .
The comparison is echoed by Ingels , who says that “ watchmaking , like computer architecture , is the nontextual matter and science of invigorate inanimate topic with intelligence agency and public presentation . It is the art of hue metals and mineral with energy , drift , tidings and measure – to bring it to life in the form of telling time . ”
Funnily enough , his plan for the museum looks a bit like another of BIG ’s late competition wins — theMuseum of the Human Body , in Montpellier , France . The human body and the fine watch : Not so different , it turns out . [ BIG ]
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