ABET Laminati – Porsche Museum Stuttgart
Excellence with pRaL® BY ABET LAMINATI
At the new Porsche Museum in Stuttgart, pRaL® by ABET LAMINATI provides the purest and most dynamic stage for the world's most famous automobiles.
In Stuttgart, in the Zuffenhausen district, is the headquarters of one of the most famous private car manufacturers in the world, Porsche, which on 31 January 2009 opened to the public its brand new and futuristic museum where it is possible to admire memorable pieces and reconstruct step by step the 100-year history of one of the companies richest in tradition and innovation.
At the opening ceremony of the spectacular building, which resembles a monolithic body floating in the air, Wendelin Wiedeking, Chairman of the Board of Management of Porsche AG, described the museum as the “new calling card on Porscheplatz.” Wideking’s intervention emblematically highlights the true meaning of the project created by the Viennese architectural firm Delugan Meissl Associated Architects: “While the powerful architecture of the building reflects Porsche’s individuality, determination and orientation towards the future, the turnkey vehicles on display in the ‘traveling museum’, always ready for action, are the breath of life that animates the history of the company.”
During its three-year construction, the museum, with its aseptic whiteness and its exhibition area resting on only three supports, to the point of appearing suspended, aroused great curiosity for its imposing architecture. The Viennese studio Delugan Meissl Associated Architects He was determined, from the beginning, to place the visitor at the centre of the whole, in an attempt to create a strong effect on the body and mind of people.
Chosen from among the ten most renowned architectural firms in Austria, Germany and Switzerland, Delugan Meissl Associated Architects has created a highly innovative central interior space in 5.600 square metres of exhibition space, following the concept developed by the prestigious HG Merz firm, in which tradition, history and scientific know-how are perfectly combined with the aim of deepening and making accessible to the public the mechanical knowledge and history of the Porsche automobile company.
The heart of the main area displays the most famous car models, around 80 historic cars and over 200 objects, accessories and components related to the history of the car manufacturer. At the same time, the technicians of the impeccable museum workshop are constantly busy keeping the exhibition cars and historic customer cars in impeccable condition.
In addition to this space, which forms the heart of the museum, there are spacious conference rooms for organizing events as well as a magnificent roof terrace. The exclusive restaurant “Christophorus”, integrated into the exhibition space, adds to the offerings of haute cuisine in Stuttgart.
The white color also distinguishes the internal area of the building, in particular in the central location that hosts the historic Porsche stage where the cars are free to stand out like sculptures in the white gallery, as expressly desired by Professor HG Merz. The structure with an unusual shape that hosts the historic Porsche cars, similar to a tubular section, was created with 600 m2060 of pRaL® 9 by ABET LAMINATI (chosen in the thickness of 3 mm and XNUMX mm), exceptionally versatile because thanks to its technological and creative formula it is freely moldable and offers multiple application possibilities.
pRaL®, obtained from the combination of a natural mineral and an acrylic polymer, represents the success of ABET LAMINATI's technological creativity, as a noble artificial material, capable of arousing pure emotions and transmitting a message with the advantage of superior performance characteristics.
To underline the puristic and dynamic background, which finds its most effective expression with pRaL®, 320.000 small LEDs have been inserted into the unusual car catwalk, which create interesting plays of light and reveal the beauty of the flat, concave or convex surfaces in pRaL®, whose invisible joints ensure the continuity of the gaze towards infinity.
In the Porsche Museum, innovative in its architecture and careful selection of materials, visitors will be able to truly experience the high technical performance of the now unsurpassed symbols of sports cars par excellence.
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