Exterior view of a modern white Porsche Museum building with angular supports and glass facade.
Porsche Museum
Germany
  • Cultural
  • Mixed Use
  • Built

The central draft concept was the translation of the versatile and vivid brand into the language of architecture. The museum features those specific conditions which the Porsche brand conveys both spatially and sensually to visitors. Driving and speed, statics and logjams can be experienced both in the building’s configuration as well as through the spatial medium. The museum is a clearly defined open place which incorporates all brand specific qualities.

Here, speed and passion find their spatial equivalents and can be impressively retraced in the sensual experience. Experience and the opportunity to experience were the primary design parameters through respective spatial allocations in the basic architectural concept.

The seeming dichotomy of the architectural shape is the appropriate answer to the building’s function and the exceptional position of its exhibits. The museum’s conceptual design demonstrates our perception of buildings as interactive organisms, as communicating part of a whole.

The consistent interaction between the building and its environment is conceived as a quality, as is a functional and practical utilisable space. The specific characteristics of the spatially definable environment are conceived as a landscape or urban landscape, its interpretation as the corporate approach.

The Porsche museum is designed as a dynamically formed, monolithic structure, seemingly detached from the entry level’s folded topography. Its reflective soffit absorbs the architectural landscape below and atmospherically increases the space between base and exhibition area. Thus this architectural gesture underlines the duality of experience and opportunity to experience on which the structural design is based.

Address
Porscheplatz 1, 70435 Stuttgart Zuffenhausen, Germany

Competition
2005 [1st prize]

Start of planning
02/2005

Start of construction
10/2005

Completion
12/2008

Floor area
13.333 m²

Gross floor area
27.692 m²

Gross floor area aboveground
14.388 m²

Volume
225.464 m³

Site area
8.200 m²

Exhibition area
5.600 m²

Gastronomy area
500 m²

Museum shop
200 m²

Classic car workshop
1.000 m²

Conference area
700 m²

Costs
€ 100 Million

Project manager
Martin Josst

Project team
Jörg Rasmussen, Torsten Sauer, Tapio Lassmann, Zoltan Adorjani, Philip Beckmann, Imke Haasler, Hendrik Steinigeweg, Gerhard Gölles, Sebastian Brunke, Thomas Peter-Hindelang

Client
Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche Aktiengesellschaft
Porscheplatz 1
D-70435 Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen

Credits photos
Brigida González, Hertha Hurnaus, Iwan Baan, DMAA

CONSULTANTS
Exhibition Concept / Design
HG Merz Architekten, Stuttgart, Germany

Architect (Realisation)
Wenzel + Wenzel Architekten, Stuttgart, Germany

Architect (Site Management)
Gassmann + Grossmann Baumanagement GmbH

Structure Engineering
Leonhardt, Andrä und Partner Beratende Ingenieure VBI GmbH, Stuttgart, Germany

Project Management
Drees & Sommer, Stuttgart GmbH, Stuttgart, Germany

Light planning
Delux AG, Regensdorf-Zurich, Switzerland

Media Technology
macom GmbH communications consulting engineers

Building Services Engineering
Interplan Gebäudetechnik GmbH,
Gerlingen, Germany,
Jürgensen + Baumgartner Ingenieurbüro für Versorgungstechnik GmbH

Building Physics
FB Wolfgang Sorge IB für Bauphysik GmbH, Nürnberg, Germany

Photographer
Brigida González
Iwan Baan
Hertha Hurnaus

Abstract line drawing with overlapping diagonal strokes across a white background; signature in bottom-right.

Porsche Museum

Concept Sketch

Geometric modern building with a gold reflective roof and white angular supports; two people stand in a plaza.

© Hertha Hurnaus

Night view of a futuristic white geometric building with a mirrored roof, glass walls, and parked cars in the foreground.

© Brigida González

Two people stand by a pair of escalators in a bright white futuristic atrium with a geometric ceiling; others walk by.

© Iwan Baan

Ascending white escalator beside a staircase in a minimalist car showroom; cars on display in the background.

© Brigida González

Red Porsche race car with number 23 parked on a glossy showroom floor beside other vintage race cars.

Brigida González

White futuristic showroom with curved walls displaying a blue-yellow Porsche-Audi race car; another race car visible in the background.

Brigida González

White Porsche race car on a display platform in a bright, minimalist showroom; other cars visible in the background.

Brigida González

Bright white contemporary art gallery corridor with visitors walking; some sit along a bench beside a wall displaying sculptures.

Iwan Baan

Suspended vintage prototype race car with metal and wood panels, displayed in a white museum alcove labeled 130.

Brigida González

White modern museum gallery displaying Porsche race-car models on raised platforms; wall reads Ferdinand Porsche.

Hertha Hurnaus

Pink Porsche race car, number 23, on display in a showroom; white race car visible to the left.

© Iwan Baan

Visitors ride an escalator and walk through a bright white Porsche museum, with FERDINAND PORSCHE signage on the wall.

© Iwan Baan

White angular architectural model with interlocking beams, displayed indoors against a gray wall casting shadows.
Interior of a white modern building with a crisscross lattice ceiling; silhouetted groups of people standing and chatting.
Black sports car parked in a minimalist, angular exhibition hall with large geometric structures and several visitors.
Futuristic white multi-level parking structure with cantilevered ramps; cars parked on upper levels against a black sky.
Futuristic glass pavilion with white angular supports and mirrored roof; outdoor plaza with illuminated walkway.

© Hertha Hurnaus

Futuristic glass-and-steel building with a slanted, reflective canopy illuminated at night beside a lit street.

© Hertha Hurnaus

Night view of a white angular building with intersecting planes, towering over a reflective pool.

© Brigida González

Contemporary angular white building with glass facade beside railway tracks and a road at dusk; exterior stairs lead to the entrance.

© Iwan Baan

White book cover with bold black text reading Porsche Museum Delugan Meissl Associated Architects HG Merz on a white surface.
Open white book held by hands; right page lists credits: Porsche-Museum, Delugan Meissl Associated Architects, HG Merz, Fotografie Iwan Baan.
Pair of hands flipping through a black-and-white photo book featuring modern architecture.
Two hands turn the pages of an open magazine spread on a white surface.
Two hands hold open photo book showing a black-and-white architectural interior spread; pages 40–41 visible.
Hands turning pages of a black-and-white photo book on a white surface, revealing two people indoors.
Hands hold open photo book showing a black-and-white urban scene with cars on a street beneath an elevated railway.
Hands turning pages of an open photobook revealing a black-and-white architectural interior with an escalator and two pedestrians.
Open book on a white surface showing a black-and-white architectural corridor spread; a hand holds the right edge.
Open book showing a black-and-white photo of a crowd in a bright, geometric interior; a person pushes a stroller at the center.
Photo book opened to a black-and-white aerial cityscape; a hand turns a page on a white surface.
Hands turning an open magazine on a white surface; left page features a grayscale car image, right page shows dense text.
Open book on white surface, displaying black-and-white aerial cityscape; a hand holds the bottom edge.
Open photo book held by hands, displaying a black-and-white landscape with leafless trees and railway tracks near a modern building.
Two hands turning a page in a magazine featuring a black-and-white cityscape photo.
Hands turning a page in an open book; right page is black with white text, left page white on a white surface.
Two hands hold an open magazine displaying white car blueprints on black pages against a white surface.
Pair of hands flipping through a black art book with white text and a monochrome diagram on a white surface.
Open book with black pages, intricate white line drawing of intersecting structural beams; two hands hold the pages.
Hands holding open book with black pages on a white surface; left page contains small text, right page shows a gray circuitry pattern.
Two hands slide across a plain white hardcover book on a white background.

Delugan Meissl
Associated Architects
HG MERZ

Conception, editing and production:
Liquid Frontiers with Martin Josst, DMAA
Photography: Iwan Baan
Graphic design: Mevis & Van Deursen
Publisher: Springer-Verlag

ISBN 978-3-211-99738-3 (german)
ISBN 978-3-211-99736-9 (english)