Hi-Macs helps to transform Handel’s music to architecture
Architecture practice Gerhards & Gluecker take inspiration from Handel’s music to reconstruct his museum at the baroque Handel House, a museum in the town of Halle an der Saale, Saxony where Handel was born.
The choice to use the solid surface material HI-MACS to bring the baroque into the 21st century was made to bring gravitas and panache to the project. One standout feature is a delicate curved pergola (shown above) in the themed room Under the Arcadian Sun, which focuses on chamber music Handel wrote during a four-year sojourn in Italy. A floral design was milled into the arch, which stands detached from the walls so that it casts patterned shadows. The arch was manufactured by Möbel Damm, after training by Klöpfer Surfaces, the distribution partner of HI-MACS.
Elsewhere all fittings and presentational elements, such as frames, pedestals, tables, show-cases and display cabinets, are all created in HI-MACS, and all in the same Arctic White HI-MACS colour.
