The booklet examines the architecture of the new Experimenta Science Centre in Heilbronn from
three different angles: In terms of urban history this building - which was designed by
sauerbruch hutton - simultaneously stands as an icon and a tool for change that accompanies its
city into a new economy of knowledge. As a construction it follows its own experimental path
both in organisational structural and ecological terms. Finally the project is a late
offspring of a typological family of spiral buildings which stretches from antiquity via the
modern movement up to the very present. All three perspectives are captured in Florian
Heilmayer's concise and lucid texts and are illustrated by numerous photos and drawings. Both
for Experimenta visitors as well as other interested contemporaries this little pamphlet is a
must.
