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Gold Interior · 2022

Audemars Piguet Musee Atelier

by Atelier Brueckner

  • Golden A' Design Award 2022 in Interior
  • CLIENT: Audemars Piguets
  • Estimated Number of Design Views: 31,515
  • Verification code 3EAB6ABB0C · Verify this award
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About Audemars Piguet Musee Atelier

Musee Atelier Audemars Piguet is a museum interior created for a Swiss watch manufacturer. The exhibition covers 1,100 square meters and is located in Le Brassus, Switzerland, the village where the company was established. Visitors follow a flowing spiral route with a composed narration, and each chapter has its own design language. Sculptures, automata and kinetic installations give rhythm to the exhibition, which is visually linked to the surrounding landscape. Reflections and shadows change with the time of day and the season.

About the Golden A' Design Award

Audemars Piguet Musee Atelier is a Golden A' Design Award winner, an immensely prestigious recognition granted to first-rate, marvelous, and outstanding designs. Golden winners are exceedingly innovative, visionary, and glamorously dazzling creations that reflect the prodigy, wisdom, and prowess of their designers. Audemars Piguet Musee Atelier is expected to be a highly praised, trendsetting, and monumental invention that delivers unprecedented value. This Golden A' Design Award-winning design is a spectacular, respected project that highly benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Audemars Piguet Musee Atelier creates intense feelings of desire, evokes passion, encourages creativity, and fascinates us.

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Unique Properties
The Musee Atelier Audemars Piguet immerses visitors in the Swiss watch manufacturers past, present and future. It is situated in the historical location where the company was established: the small village of Le Brassus. In the exhibition, reflections and shadows combine to create a spectacle in which the course of time is inscribed. Visitors experience the route as a flowing continuum with a composed narration where each chapter has its own design language.
Dimensions & Packaging
The exhibition area is 1,100 sqm.
Tags
Watch, Audemars, Piguets, craftmanship, luxury
Production Technology
Optically flowing transitions characterise the exhibition. Depending on the time of day and the season, the overall impression changes. Reflections and shadows combine to create a spectacle in which the course of time is inscribed. Visitors experience the rhythmically flowing route as a flowing continuum with a composed narration. Each chapter has its own design language and is introduced by an interlude, a mechanical sculpture or an artistically designed display item.
Design Challenge
Premium Swiss watchmaker Audemars Piguet stands for meticulous precision, use of the highest quality materials and the best craftmanship. These values were translated into the spacial design and the visitor experience. Creating these innovative concepts and bringing them to life is not only a magical process, but also requires a lot of preparation: from floorplans and renderings to models and planning of technical details.
Research
The scenography of the museum shows the milestones of the brands development and related technical innovations as well as the entire design process. This starts from the origins of watch making in the Vallee de Joux, passes over the escapements and the complications by putting emphasis on the Royal Oak series.
Inspiration
The visitors immerse the Swiss watch manufacturers past, present and future. In the exhibition, reflections and shadows combine to create a spectacle in which the course of time is inscribed. Visitors experience the route as a flowing continuum with a composed narration where each chapter has its own design language. The history of the company serves as a starting point of the narration. Visitors travel through the building as they would through the spring of a timepiece.
Project Duration
The Musee Atelier Audemars Piguet is situated in the historical location where the company was established: the small village of Le Brassus, Switzerland. It was finished in June 2020.
Operation Flow
The scenography offers a diverse experience of watchmaking with crescendos, highpoints and contemplative moments. Various sculptures, automata and kinetic installations give rhythm to the exhibition, which is optically linked to the surrounding landscape.
In the heart of the spiral, visitors approach the Complications. They are demonstrated by mechanical installations and give visitors a feeling about the complexity of the watch mechanisms. Eight watches with Grande Complications are placed around the Universelle, the most complicated watch that Audemars Piguet has ever created.
Image Credits
General Planning, Exhibition Design, Scenography, Graphic Design: ATELIER BRÜCKNER

Light Planning with: LDE Belzner Holmes

Media Planning with: medienprojekt p2

Architecture: BIG Bjarke Ingels Group

Photography: Giovanni Emilio Galanello

Illustrator: Benjamin Guschlbauer

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