Sauerbruch Hutton - The New Experimenta in Heilbronn

Designed by Sauerbruch Hutton and opened in 2019, the Experimenta Science Center in Heilbronn is Germany’s largest science museum and a new landmark of the up-and-coming university city. Viewed through the lens of Heilbronn’s historical development, it appears as an agent of change heralding the emergence of a local knowledge-based society. As a construction, the building follows its own experimental path, both in organizational, structural, and ecological terms. It stands in a long tradition of spiral shaped buildings, that stretches from antiquity to modernity and contemporary times. Its transformation into a science centre expands the idea of metaphorical ascent in striking and innovative way.