Cruise Ship ScaleCruise ships are among the largest element in the Helsinki landscape.....

Our massing relates to both. The six tall floors of the museum are in line with the Western Harbor elevations.

Urban ScaleThe proportions of the Western Harbor buildings are mostly seven or eight stories.

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WARMING PLAZAGeothermally Heated in Winter, Sun-warmed in Summer

NEW MAKASIINI TERMINALUnder the Warming Plaza Landscape

EXTENDED PEDESTRIAN DECKContaining Port Functions & Parking

BIRCH GROVE ENTRY PLAZAA Formal Plaza Facing the City

ATRIUM AS THERMAL LUNG & WINTER GARDENA New Civic Space for Helsinki

NEW PEDESTRIAN & BIKE CIRCULATIONComplete Accessibility to Park and Waterfront

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USPENSKI CATHEDRALUSPENSKIN KATREDAALI

MARKET SQUAREKAUPPATORI

MAKASIINI TERMINAL (SITE)MAKASIINITERMINAALI

HELSINKI CATHEDRALTUOMIOKIRKKO

KANAVA TERMINALKANAVATERMINAALI

GUGGENHEIM HELSINKIA NEW CENTER FOR THE CITY

The Three Ecologies of the MuseumMuseums are social and cultural institutions that act as both hubs in an urban network and amplifiers of social life. The best museums become new, vital centers, transforming cities in positive ways. In this sense, museums engage not only with culture, but with economics and ecology as well—a meeting point for visitors and local inhabitants that model values of culture, sustainability, and civic pride.

We are proposing a museum that connects to the surrounding urban landscape, starting before one even enters the

GUGGENHEIMHELSINKI

HELSINKI ZOO

CITY OF HELSINKIWINTER GARDEN

KAISANIEMIBOTANIC GARDEN

BOTANICAL &WINTER GARDENS

PARKS & GARDENS

MONUMENTS

SHADE TREES

ECOLOGY Gardens, Parks, Public Spaces

GUGGENHEIMHELSINKI

NATIONAL MUSEUMOF FINLAND

SINEBRYCHOFFART MUSEUM

KIASMA

KAISANIEMIBOTANIC GARDEN

ATENEUMKAPUNGINMUSEO

MANNERHEIMMUSEUM

MAJORMUSEUMS

CULTURE Museums & Galleries

SPECIALIZEDCOLLECTIONS

GALLERIES

GUGGENHEIMHELSINKI

INTERNATIONAL FERRIESLOCAL FERRIESMAJOR ROADSSTREETSMETRO

MAJORTERMINALS

MINORTERMINALS

ECONOMY Tourism & Transport

ECONOMYTOURISMTRANSPORT

CULTURE +ECOLOGY +ECONOMY

ECOLOGYSUSTAINABILITY

WINTER GARDENSSUMMER PLAYSPACE

CULTUREART

ENGAGEMENTSOCIAL LIFE

A SUSTAINABLE MUSEUMTHREE ECOLOGIES

GUGGENHEIMHELSINKI

GUGGENHEIMNEW YORK

GUGGENHEIMBILBAO

PEGGY GUGGENHEIMCOLLECTION

GUGGENHEIMABU DHABI

60ºN

project. We want to respond positively to a climate that is cold, even frigid, for most of the year by providing a kind of urban hearth fire. The Finnish concept of the sauna extends beyond simply a heated room—it becomes a social hub, a psychological space, a place of gathering. Our project mimics this social, psychological dimension of the sauna. In winter, we provide a system of warming spaces beginning in the landscape and extending to the radiantly heated atrium and galleries. In summer, we maximize the use of the sun’s warmth to create vibrant plazas on the exterior and a bright, luminous set of galleries.

KAUPPATORIMARKET SQUARE

HAAKSIRIKKOISET PATSASTHE SHIPWRECK MONUMENT

USPENSKI CATHEDRALUSPENSKIN KATEDRAALI

OBSERVATORYOBSERVATORIO

THE SHIPWRECK MONUMENTHAAKSIRIKKOISET PATSAS

HELSINKI CATHEDRALTUOMIOKIRKKO

MARKET SQUAREKAUPPATORI

FINNISH ARCHITECTUREMUSEUM

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Lifting the CornersThe simple act of lifting the corners of the inflected box allows the city in. It has the effect of unveiling the contents of an urban space. It also creates a structural parabolic arch at each corner—supporting the contents of the galleries above with a light, almost fabriclike structure.

Making a CenterThe opening of the corners creates a clearing in the center of the building, to be filled with urban life. This urban center connects both visually and physically with the most prominent elements of Helsinki life: Market Square, the South Harbor, Tähtitornin Vuori.

A Winter Garden/Summer SpaceThe entire building reacts to the seasons, accomodating the urban life of Helsinki in both winter and summer. In winter, it is a hearth, a city-scale sauna space; in summer, it is a place for meeting, for revitalization, and for reflection.

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ThermokarstsThese natural depressions in the northern Finnish landscape are created as permafrost thaws, leaving a depression. They inform our landscape plan.

Cold-Molded Boat HullsCold-molding is a monocoque process for building boats in wood layers oriented in different directions. The entrances of our project are based on the long tradition of Finnish boatbuilding.

Brass/Bronze ArtifactsThe prehistory of Suomi is filled with artifacts and parables, from the Bronze Age to the Kalevala to independence. The project makes material reference to this history.

Networks & ConnectionsThe contemporary museum is not simply a display space for art, but a social, cultural, and economic attractor for the city around it. Museums have a life based not only on the singular user experience, but on the shared, intersubjective experience of visitors. And on the museum’s interaction with the surrounding city.

In this sense, museums exert a kind of gravitational force on nearby neighborhoods. In the best cases, they become a hub in a network of urban connections. Our scheme is based on emphasizing this hub—an open museum, an atrium as urban attractor.

Our proposal creates a new set of connections for the city, park, and waterfront—turning a detached periphery of parking lots and infrastructure into a central civic space.

The Scale of the Western Shore: The brass-alloy facade will quickly weather from golden to a shimmering blackish patina The Main (Market Square) Entry: The natural wood of the inverted boat-hull entrances invite the city in

Level 1_Ground (+3.1m) Level 3 (+12m) Theater & OfficesLevel 2 (+8.1m) Cafe & Retail

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Medium GalleryLarge Paintings, Installations, Happenings

Large GalleryMassive Artworks, Installations, Performances

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URBAN MIXERThe Atrium Pulls the City In

GALLERY LOOP (One Out of Many Possible Loops)

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Restaurant

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CITY-VIEW RESTAURANT/PLAZA CAFE

THEATER +MUSEUM SHOP

3EXPERIENCEGALLERY LOGIC

THE MUSEUM AS ZONE OF SHARED EXPERIENCEThe museum is generally an open, democratic institution in which people come together in shared experience of art or culture.

Environment Person Person Environment Person Person

PARABOLIC (BOAT-HULL) ENTRIESThe Ground Floor Opens to the City

BUILDING ORGANIZATION

The Atrium as City-scale Winter Garden, Thermal Lung: The spruce wood and radiant floor of the Atrium create an inviting, hearthlike space Galleries Filled with Nordic Light: The whitewashed wood structure creates bright gallery spaces—scalable for any type of art.

Small GalleryPaintings, Objects, Artifacts

Level 4 (+16m) Galleries Level 5 (+22m) Galleries & Restaurant

FLEXIBLE, RECONFIGURABLE GALLERIESWe provide a number of types and configurations of galleries in the project: small, medium, large galleries; huge multipurpose zones; curatable ramps. All are able to be partitioned and separately climate- and function-controlled.

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DISTRICT HEATINGGEOTHERMAL HEAT PUMP

IN-HOUSE POWER GRID

30º ANGLED PV ON UPWARD SLOPE OF ROOF

WARMING PLAZA STORES HEAT IN THERMALLY MASSIVE CONCRETE

HYDRONIC RADIANT FLOOR

LONG-TERM (ANNUALIZED) HEAT STORAGE

HIGHLY-INSULATED (TIGHT) ENVELOPE

MATERIALS AND EMBODIED ENERGY

Beaten Brass AlloyThe exterior facade of the building is a “beaten” brass alloy, evocative of Finnish bronze age tools and art, but also boat riggings and hulls. The beaten appearance will be controlled parametrically by machine-stamping the panels in a controlled environment. At the beginning of the building’s life, the material will be crisp and bright. It will weather over time to a blackish brown.

Three different types of panels comprise the facade: a solid panel, a perforated panel that allows for light and views, and a glass panel fritted with a pattern to match the brass cladding.

The long lifespan and minimal maintenance required for a brass alloy makes it preferable to many other cladding materials in terms of embodied energy, CO2 generation, and overall cost. It is virtually 100% recyclable with no quality loss or downcycling.

Wood Structure & FinishesInstead of either steel or concrete, the project uses an almost entirely wood structure. Wood is more environmentally sound than other common structural materials. When laminated, it has a greater tensile strength than steel, and a greater compressive resistance than concrete. It uses one-sixth the embodied energy to produce than an equivalent amount of steel per strength. And it is two-thirds the weight.

1/ Clear SpruceThe entry arches and atrium are formed out of Clear Larch, treated to maintain a constant bright golden color.

2/ White Oiled SpruceThe structural Glulam beams and finishes in the gallery and office spaces are white-oiled clear spruce. This gives both the structure and the floor abright, radiant, white appearance, while preserving the texture of the wood.

3/ Burnt (Shou Sugi Ban) SpruceIn select other spaces, blackened spruce will create a quiet, dim interior. The burning process seals the wood against weathering and rot.

DAYLIGHTING

White Timber Diffusion RoofThe structure of the top floor above the galleries primarily uses deep (2m) laminated wood beams, bleached white. A second layer of wood beams run in the opposite direction, and both blackout and translucent shades are integrated into the coffer. The depth and orientation of this system produces an even light over the entire top floor galleries, with no glare nor direct sunlight.

Perforated Alloy SkinThe skin of the building is selectively perforated for daylighting, views, and openness. The perforations also act as shading to diffuse glare and on bright days.

Summer: Heat is Flushed From Atrium Winter: Heat is Recycled in Atrium to Nearby Spaces

Year 1Bright, Luminous

Year 5Mellowing

Year 15+Weathered

BRASS PATINA WEATHERING

SPRUCE WOOD CONCEPT

A LOW-ENERGY, HIGH INTENSITY MUSEUMThe energy concept for the design is intended to improve environmental conditions while minimizing energy use.

This is accomplished in the building through: 1/ using passive systems to achieve demand. 2/ where passive systems are not possible, using high-performance building integrated systems to optimize energy loads3/ using renewables and low-embodied energy materials wherever possible.

4ECOLOGY & ENERGY

HEAT AND POWER

District Heating: CogenerationThe project intends to make use of the already-existing district heating network within Helsinki, as well as cogenerated power and grid electricity. Heat will be distributed through both hydronic radiant flooring (which on rare extremely hot days can be switched to radiant cooling) and preconditioned direct air for gallery and other spaces.

Spaces with high occupancy (theater, restaurant) will be supplemented by closed-loop ground- or water-source cooling.

Local Combined Heat and PowerA small combined heat and power (cogeneration) plant will also exist within the building itself, supplying heat and energy when demand spikes, and to mitigate inefficiencies within the district heating system. Biomass waste from the building itself will be used to fuel the plant, including paper waste, certain types of food waste, and other biomass products.

Geothermal Heat PumpA water-to-water geothermal heat pump will precondition water to be supplied to the hydronic radiant floor system across the ground (concrete) floor of the building, and to select other spaces. This system will be installed when the partly contaminated ground soil below the building is reconditioned.

Roof-Mounted PhotovoltaicsPhotovoltaic panels will produce secondary energy for lighting and other low-demand building functions.

Annualized (Long-term) Heat StorageThe project may also use a seasonal thermal energy storage system depending on proximity to groundwater or glaciofluvial aquifers, or using boreholes.

PASSIVE SYSTEMS

Atrium as Thermal LungThe atrium space will act as a thermal “lung” for the building. In the cold months and shoulder seasons, it will work like a greenhouse, collecting and cycling hot air through the building through bouyancy. In the summer season, the skylight at the top can be opened to create a stack effect through convection.

Surface Color/Compact MassThe building is relatively compact, as befits a cold climate. All of the rooms bundle around the heated atrium. The facade will weather to a dark color intended to increase the solar- and heat-gain properties of the building envelope. This highly-conductive material will radiate heat to a thermal sink, from which the heat can be stored for later use.

Winter Garden/GreenhouseThe majority of the roof is triple-glazed with skylights, allowing almost constant direct solar gain in the long cold months. This solar gain will be cycled through the building using both passive convection and fans where necessary.

HEAT GARDENS & WARMING LANDSCAPES

A hydronic radiant heating system is integrated into the floor and surface areas of both the atrium and large entrances. The configuration allows for zones of heat intensification that act almost as radiant hearth fires—what we call “thermal gardens.” These will be especially active in winter, generating a new kind of public space within Helsinki. Special lighting will create a warm orange glow around these spaces.

Heat KarstsLandscape mounds and depressions will be heated in the winter using radiant heating in thermal mass. These will act as gathering points and places for rest and contemplation. In summer, they become spaces for sunbathing or conversation.

Winter: Mounds are Radiant Heated

Summer: Mounds are Sun Warmed

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GALLERIESLIGHT REFLECTION

PUBLIC HALLSWARMTH & WELCOMING

THEATER/CAFEINTIMACY

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NATURALNORWAY SPRUCE

BURNT NORWAY SPRUCE

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1/ SOLID BRASS ALLOY PANEL

2/ PERFORATED PANEL

3/ FRITTED GLASS PANEL

THREE PANEL TYPES

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