This book about the Mercedes-Benz Museum is more than the document of a remarkable project: the book shows how various forms of expert knowledge have been combi... » 

This book about the Mercedes-Benz Museum is more than the document of a remarkable project: the book shows how various forms of expert knowledge have been combined and interwoven to finally result in the Mercedes-Benz Museum. It gives an insight into the various ideas, experiences and ambitions behind the project. At its basis was a unique design model: the digitally programmed, three-dimensional, cross-connected trefoil. Implementing this model has resulted in a building that radically breaks with many of today.s architectural conventions. The aim of the book is to allow the visitor of the Mercedes-Benz Museum to take the building home; it recreates the experience of visiting the complex, yet strongly directional structure which provides many surprising perceptual experiences. .The building twist and turns around you like a sculpture full of contrapposto; now you see things and people, now you don.t. It would take you six hours to see every car, every display of the winding exhibition without ends. It will certainly take you several visits to figure the building out. At any point, it is difficult to know where you are precisely. You can be in the right space in the wrong place, or you can be in the right place in the wrong space. The building keeps unfolding, keeps surprising you. But you cannot lose your way.. (Quote Ben van Berkel and Caroline Bos) «