Show Palace Munich

The Showpalast arena seats 1,700 spectators in front of a specially designed, 40-metre-long stage. With its limited number of rows, its layout ensures that all visitors are given clear, close-upviews of the unique show.

While the stage and backstage areas are designed to allow horses access to the show space from all directions, modern projection technology augments the real with the virtual, creating a flexible and immersive theatrical experience.

Clad with undulating timber slat screens, the facade of the Showpalast appears to take flight—like a galloping horse in motion—especially when illuminated by a light show.

Despite their different functions and characters, the other pavilions will share a similar material palette and design-DNA, creating a harmonious ensemble and lending the brand a sense of spatial identity. The use of wood as a natural, familiar material makes the avant-garde forms of the pavilions more approachable.

GRAFT’s design gives the remarkable horse show a distinctive and instantly recognizable public face. Work will continue in 2018 with the successive addition of pavilions housing a horse care center, a horse museum, a blacksmith, a veterinary center, a science center, a riding hall and lunging circle, a 360° cinema, a foal station and numerous stables.