Reference report James Simon Gallery,

A temple for the arts

Designing clean entrances. Monumental entrance area

In 2018, David Chipperfield’s multifunctional James-Simon-Galerie with the Friedrich August Stüler’s Doric portico connecting the Neues building was opened on Berlin’s Museum. Like a balcony to the city, Museum and the . The super-slim, elegant precast it offers impressive views of the Pleasure Garden () and concrete columns have been manually sandblasted and stretch up to the new (Stadtschloss) while also serving as an en- nine metres high. trance area. The Galerie currently provides access to the and in future is to provide access to the „Archaeological Authentic materials, wide vistas Promenade“ with subterranean links to all the museums except for The building’s interior extends over three floors and impresses with its the Alte Nationalgalerie. The building houses a book and museum use of high-quality materials such as patinated bronze, Thassos mar- shop, a terrace restaurant, an auditorium and an exhibition room. ble panes and French walnut wood against a background of simple exposed concrete walls. The glass façades are held in place by glass Multifunctional building with a colonnade fins, while an elegant walnut ceiling hangs above the visitors in the The building resembles a classical museum, standing on a podium auditorium. Generous suites create an extended sense of space and and accessible via a monumental open staircase. It thus conforms the chic shell limestone floor is protected from contamination and with the array of historic buildings on the . The temple damage by emco entrance mats. analogy is also underlined by the colonnades which stylistically tie in SCHALL (ofwhichapprox.75m Galerie viaabrasion-resistantentrancematsofthetypeemco The buildingcanaccessedatdifferentlevelswithentrytothe Colour, formandfunctioninharmony additional profiles. heights, twoprofilewidthsandcanoptionallybecombinedwith sionally stable,TÜV-certifiedinsertsareavailableinthreeprofile cleanliness whilealsoprovidinganinvitingambience.Thedimen - the entrance areas,but also inside thebuilding, helping to maintain heart ofBerlin.Entrancematsfromemcowereinstallednotonlyin highly frequentedbuildingssuchasthisprestigiousbuildinginthe These matseasilywithstandextremeloadsmakingthemidealfor and emco PLAZA, bordered by colour-coordinated anodised profiles. dirt accumulationandlongcleaningintervals. height-flexible Asubstructure,whichiscapableofextreme Some oftheentrancematswereequippedwithemco’s Year ofinstallation:2009–2018 Project size:4.600m Architect: DavidChipperfield,London/Berlin Developer: StiftungPreußischerKulturbesitz emco System solution:emco Building: James-Simon-Galerie,Berlin PLAZA, emco substructure versionA 2 2 areequippedwithasubstructure) MARSCHALL,

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