mira façade, Munich - Léon Wohlhage Wernik
mira façade, Munich - Léon Wohlhage Wernik
mira façade, Munich - Léon Wohlhage Wernik
You also want an ePaper? Increase the reach of your titles
YUMPU automatically turns print PDFs into web optimized ePapers that Google loves.
<strong>mira</strong> <strong>façade</strong>,<br />
<strong>Munich</strong><br />
Location München-Nordheide, Schleißheimer Straße<br />
Description Façade for a shopping center<br />
Status completed, <strong>façade</strong> competition in 2006 (1st prize)<br />
Planning period 2007<br />
Construction period 2007–2008<br />
Type Trade / Business<br />
Client Fondara GmbH<br />
© LÉON WOHLHAGE WERNIK, Gesellschaft von Architekten mbH, Foto: © Fondara GmbH
LÉON WOHLHAGE WERNIK, Gesellschaft von Architekten mbH<br />
<strong>mira</strong> <strong>façade</strong>, <strong>Munich</strong><br />
LÉON WOHLHAGE WERNIK developed a <strong>façade</strong> concept for <strong>mira</strong>, a new shopping<br />
centre with a multi-storey car park, after winning a competition in 2006. The shopping<br />
centre was initially a large, unstructured volume in a development area in the<br />
northern part of the city. The coloured exterior <strong>façade</strong> fulfils two requirements:<br />
It creates an unmistakeable, memorable identity for <strong>mira</strong> and also has the effect<br />
of a background for the neighbouring residential development. Fields of colour<br />
structure the large <strong>façade</strong> surface and give pedestrians a more pleasant grasp of its<br />
size. Mainly however, people perceive the multicoloured hanging <strong>façade</strong> from their<br />
cars on three sides of the building. The large shopping centre is situated on a busy<br />
major road.<br />
The prismatic folding of the colourfully painted and partially polished aluminium<br />
sheeting gives each field two colours. When driving past the <strong>façade</strong>, it acts like a<br />
picture puzzle that changes its appearance depending on the viewer’s perspective<br />
and direction of movement. The power of the idea lies in movement: Passers by<br />
only grasp the interplay of the <strong>façade</strong> with their own perception by moving past<br />
it. The coloured fields alternate with reflective fields that mirror the sky and the<br />
city – thereby creating their own dynamism and depth. From that relief-like image,<br />
the white sections of the building, a plastered <strong>façade</strong> with shop windows, provide<br />
contrast and frame the new square in front of the main entrance.<br />
www.leonwohlhagewernik.de<br />
© LÉON WOHLHAGE WERNIK, Gesellschaft von Architekten mbH, Fotos: © Klaus F. Linscheid, Aichach