建筑是有人居住的雕塑。
Architecture is inhabited sculpture.
爱彼(Audemars Piguet)博物馆Musée Atelier 创新的螺旋式当代设计与传统制表工艺交织出互动交流和现场展示的空间，体现出品牌独立自主的精神，以及致力于将植根于汝山谷的高级制表传统推广至全球各地的愿景。
2014年，丹麦BIG建筑公司（Bjarke Ingels Group）赢得全新博物馆的公开招标，开展历史建筑的扩建工程，并设计一栋现代化的螺旋式玻璃结构展馆，比邻爱彼最古老的建筑。该建筑公司也是负责纽约Two World Trade Centre 的建筑公司。
这座历史最悠久的爱彼建筑正是1875年 Jules Louis Audemars与Edward Auguste Piguet创立爱彼品牌的所在地 —从技术层面看来，这在当时的汝山谷堪称一家新创公司。古今建筑融为一体的设计，正是爱彼植根传统、前瞻未来的品牌理念的写照：以爱彼的精湛工艺为核心，致敬品牌发源地汝山谷。螺旋式结构展馆与自然景观浑然天成，将为爱彼制表师打造融合极致工艺与非凡设计的时计杰作提供崭新的舞台。
螺旋式结构的展馆内设有传统制表工坊，观者可以近距离体验和感受爱彼技艺高超的制表师手工打造复杂功能时计的细节。大复杂功能与Métiers d’Art传统工艺工坊位于博物馆的心脏位置，为展馆展示的诸多融合精密机械与美学设计的时计杰作注入生机。
爱彼的品牌发展史因此开启全新篇章，在之后的岁月历程中，必将收获更为丰厚的积淀与传承。博物馆展出跨越200年历史、超过300枚怀表和腕表作品，包括体现爱彼在复杂功能、微型工艺和突破常规的非凡设计领域最具代表性的典范之作。通过这些时计杰作，观者可以深入了解19世纪的制表师如何在位于瑞士侏罗山脉的偏远村落中，打造出百年来风靡全球的精湛时计作品。螺旋式展馆的中心汇集了爱彼复杂功能制表最具代表性的作品，将展厅内的时计展示推向高潮。球形展柜如同太阳系的行星，承载自爱彼创立以来始终占据复杂功能制表核心的 天文显示、钟乐报时和计时码表三类杰作， 围绕着1899年问世的超卓复杂功能Universelle怀表，令人联想到与制表息息相关的天体运行 的规律。 这一展区的终点，则陈列着琳琅满目的皇家橡树系列、皇家橡树离岸型和皇家橡树概念系列腕表杰作。目前腕表博物院已开放给公众，可通过网址预购入场票。
Musée Atelier Audemars Piguet is a spiral-shaped building rising up out of the landscape of Vallée de Joux in Switzerland designed by BIG for the watchmaker to house its collection of timepieces.
The curved glass walls and the green roof of the BIG-designed pavilion sit next to the original Audemars Piguet workshop, which was set up in 1875. This historic building has been restored by Swiss architecture office CCHE and connected to the new museum, which was also realised by the studio.
BIG designed the museum’s curved glass walls to be load-bearing, so there are no columns or walls with the building. Bronze mesh sits over the top of the glazed facade to filter sunlight without obstructing views of the Jura mountains.
The spiral roof’s shape forms clerestory windows towards the centre that are also shaded with bronze. Grass covers the roof of the building to create a lawn in summer and a snowy scene in winter.
Inside, the curved glass walls converge in a clockwise direction to channel visitors through the building as though they are walking inside the spring of a watch.
The floors are slanted to follow the gradient of the ground, rising and falling as it leads from the entrance to the centre.At the centre of the spiral sits the Universelle – Audemars Piguet‘s most complicated watch, which was made in 1899. Other astronomical watches are arranged around this centre like planets in a solar system.
Each watch is displayed in a metal case shaped like an astronomical instrument perched on a slim column anchored to the ground. Displays also include sculptures and moving models that demonstrate the inner workings of the watches. Benches have been set up as interactive displays for visitors who want to try their hand at watchmaking skills.
The museum will be open to the public. Tickets have to be purchased in advance at Museeatelier-audemarspiguet.com, with standard adult tickets price at 30 Swiss francs, with discount tickets available for students, youths, seniors, as well as residents of the Vallee de Joux.
