BMW Guggenheim Lab 2011 New York
The BMW Guggenheim Lab is a pioneering initiative of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, the Guggenheim Museum, and BMW Group. Designed as a mobile research facility, the BMW Guggenheim Lab will exhibit future-oriented concepts, ideas, and designs for the challenges facing the city of the future. The three BMW Guggenheim Labs are set to bring together leading personalities from the sectors for architecture, art, science, design, technology and education over the next six years. Each lab will be traveling three major metropolitan areas around the world for two years.
NUSSLI was tasked with the production and installation of the first Lab in New York. The Lab is a temporary structure, comparable with a pavilion with a stage facility, which can be used for performances, exhibitions, receptions or forums. The support structure of the 30 m long, 8 m high, and 6 m wide construction is a strut work of carbon profiles. This material is used here for the first time for this type of structure, and has previously found application mostly in the sectors for sports and in the aerospace industry. The architectural design was provided by the Japanese design studio BowWow. NUSSLI supplied the engineering development, production, and installation of the Lab in a very tight time frame of just four months.
The subsequent construction of the Lab in the middle of Manhattan took six NUSSLI construction specialists around four weeks. Following the highly successful official opening of the Lab in New York in early August 2011, NUSSLI was then tasked with the removal and reconstruction of the mobile Lab in Berlin and Mumbai. The comprehensive logistics and structural framework conditions are further challenges for NUSSLI as part of this fascinating project.
BMW Guggenheim Lab, New York
BMW Guggenheim Lab, New York
BMW Guggenheim Lab, New York
