The preserved skeleton of Friedrich the Great’s horse, the academy clock to which Berliners set their watches for 130 years and the analogue computer which was invented in Berlin – All of these items were displayed in the exhibition ‘300 years of Science in Berlin’ for which we built a giant shelving structure to house them and 97 other large exhibits: resulting in a wall 16 metres high and 40 metres long.

The exhibition is located within a first floor atrium in a listed building, making the logistics of the build particularly challenging. We performed a very careful installation on a floor which only just bore the additional load of the exhibition.

Client: Humboldt University, Berlin
Our role: Detailed design, construction information and construction of the spherically curved shelving structure
Location: Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin