The New Museum of Architecture and Design
An International Competition
Location: Helsinki, Finland
Client: Foundation for the Finnish Museum of Architecture and Design
Area: 10,050 m2
Designing the New Museum of Architecture and Design at Eteläsatama southern port, is a challenge that calls for bridging between historical heritage and future, between everyday life and Art and between Architecture and the environment.
Very early, we realized that the task of bridging between these conflicting realities cannot be achieved by a monumental gesture. The modest programmatic scale of the project, led us to propose a fluid form that can both exist and disappear, adjust and transform in a variety changing realities. Its dynamic shape defines, as well as blends with vehicular and pedestrian urban flows, and creates a smooth and organic edge to the city.
It's ambiguous translucent and reflective appearance demonstrates the different roles of which the structure can play within a complex urban environment. Its presence alternates between reflections, mirroring, joining, merging, appearing and disappearing in a live urban waterfront environment. We wanted to demonstrate how Architecture can dwell between reality and imagination.
The coexistence of the of the tangible and the intangible, underscores the central role of subjectivity and perception in the museum experience.Designing the New Museum of Architecture and Design at Eteläsatama southern port, is a challenge that calls for bridging between historical heritage and future, between everyday life and Art and between Architecture and the environment.
Very early, we realized that the task of bridging between these conflicting realities cannot be achieved by a monumental gesture. The modest programmatic scale of the project, led us to propose a fluid form that can both exist and disappear, adjust and transform in a variety changing realities. Its dynamic shape defines, as well as blends with vehicular and pedestrian urban flows, and creates a smooth and organic edge to the city.
