The Brandhorst Museum - Sauerbruch Hutton

How important is the role of fa?ade manufacturers? in the outcome of a brilliant project?

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Brandhorst Museum, Designed by a berlin based Architect Sauerbruch Hutton, is known and wildly acknowledged for its unique and distinctive appearance.

The building stands at the entrance of the arts district in Munich, Germany and primarily consists of a longer volume? and a small volume which is rather taller, both of these are cladded with 36,000 TERRART?-Baguette ceramic rods in an assortment of 23 custom colors, glazed in families of eight colors. This gives the building its overall distinctive appearance of abstract painting.

According to the Architect one of the biggest challenge for them was applying the desired colour on the correct material for which they were dependent on the manufacturers feedback. For Brandhorst museum they had thorough coordination with NBK Studio’s and collectively they were successful in achieving the desired results.

The technical design of NBK's system is also dynamic, and uses the principles of a rainscreen, ventilated facade. Instead of being engineered as a relatively impervious layer, caulked and sealed against the weather, the facade features open vertical joints that allow free flow of air. The facade's ability to balance air pressure, along with a support system that drains rainwater away from cavities behind, discourages water from entering wall cavities.

The building houses a space for a display of 700 artworks with the interior that’s designed with plain white walls and wooden flooring to make the art piece the main element and the exterior, designed for the building to look like an art piece or as the architect says “a jewelry box”

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Content and Photography: Ceramic Architecture, Dezeen, sauerbruchhutton work office, Architect Magazine, archdaily, Hunter Douglas Architectural, Siedle, ?e-Architect, Archello.