Next October, the German car manufacturer BMW will inaugurate its new, original and futuristic centre ‘BMW Welt (BMW World) in Munich. Entirely realized out of steel and glass, the building will contain a business space, shops and restaurants as well as rooms for business meetings.This impressive project was carried out using the software think project!¹, distributed to the Benelux countries by the company Online Projects (member of the SCIA Group).
The building, with a very futuristic architecture, arises as a spiral of glass and steel. It is a very avant-garde construction, composed of two cones, with a height of 28 meters and a diameter of 45 meter, which are placed ‘point against point’. The slope has the shape of a volute. The roof is also curved and supported by a cone.”A landscape of clouds” The architects’ firm Coop Himmelblau imagined the building; it offers a vision of “a landscape of clouds”. It will accommodate a commercial section, an interactive campus around the topic of mobility for children, shops and restaurants, a delivery point of cars and a centre for car accessories. “The idea is to create a BMW centre so as to make it possible for the customer to discover a real BMW world”.
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Renovation of the museum
On the same site is situated the BMW museum, it is connected to ‘BMW Welt’ by a bridge.
This year, the museum underwent large restoration works, e.g. the surface has been increased from 1.000 to 5.000 m2. It is very famous for it’s ‘flying saucer’ shape; the museum shows exposures of vehicles, plane engines, and motorbikes. The new sight includes ’slopes seeming to float in space’ but also ultramodern façades and crossing gangways. The objective of all this work is having visitors discover BMW world in an optimal way. “On average, we record more than 200.000 visitors per annum, which places us in the second place of the museums of Munich, just behind the ‘Deutsches Museum’. In this respect, it is important that the new BMWMuseum sets new trends’, concludes Holger Lapp, director of BMW Mobile Tradition.
In total, approximately 800.000 visitors yearly are expected on the BMW site of Munich.¹ think project! is a solution based on the Internet, which gathers all relevant data and information of a project and places it at the disposal of the partners involved on a central platform. This approach simplifies the process of communication between the implied teams and facilitates the exchanges of information between the various structures and/or data-processing applications.
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