BIZ Grube Messel/BIZ Pit Messel (UNESCO Worldnature Heritage), Darmstadt, Germany
All embracing Exhibition Design & Way Finding System

Presentation architecture and interior design HolzerKobler Architekturen GmbH, Zürich | Architektur LandauKindlbacher, München. Contracting Authority Land Hessen, Ministry for Science & Arts | User UNESCO Worldnature Heritage | Project BIZ Grube Messel | Realisation 2007 - 2011

An individually created and customized cement object visualises the UNESCO Worldmap with Legend at the centre's entrance: direct printing on béton brut by means of negative template.

On the project by the Zürich presentation architects and scenographs HolzerKobler Visual Dope assume responsibility for the entire presentation graphics: Colour, form and lettering generation of the space illustration as well as the development of the building control systems or signage. The presentation graphics formally continues the non-orthogonal architecture like a natural process, via the exhibits (HolzerKobler Architects, Zürich) and the lettering axis up to the screen design. The colour concept is inspired by the natural variety of the rock layers and forms a contrast to the béton brut.

Huge vector illustrations of themes like rain forest or volcanism are printed directly on the béton brut whose wall extend up to 6 metres by means of negative templates (Via Grafik Wiesbaden).

Huge vector illustrations of themes like rain forest or volcanism are printed directly on the béton brut whose wall extend up to 6 metres by means of negative templates (Via Grafik Wiesbaden).

Thus they transmit a strikingly subtile atmosphere which surprises in a different way in each space and is emphasized even more by the architecture (by LandauKindelbacher, München) and the media presentation (I Art Interactive, Basel).