Phaeno Science Center. Wolfsburg, Germany

Phaeno Science Center, Wolfsburg, Germany

Phaeno Science Center

Phaeno Science Center, Wolfsburg, Germany
Architect: Zaha Hadid Architects and Mayer Bahrle Freie Architekten BDA
Client: Phaeno Science Center
Awards: Shortlisted for the RIBA Stirling Prize


The building is like an undulating earthwork. The undercroft is a dark grotto, carved out of looming dreamlike forms. The paved surface of the town is carried inside in a meandering series of ramped routes through elevated exhibition spaces.
 
It is fascinating to visit a building that is the realisation of an imaginative world that we know vividly through twenty years of abstract images.