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URBAN CONCEPT
For the Guggenheim Museum in Helsinki, we propose a polygonal museum, whose geometry was derived from the context
and sits confidently at the harbor. The shape completes a strong urban accent and complies with its prominent location on
the harbor meet. The design takes on the edge of the Eteläinen Makasiinikatu road and defines together with the old market
hall a public square in front of the Palace Hotel. In addition, the planned pedestrian deck is taken into account along the
Laivasillankatu and the Port Access through the museum site. An important part of our design is to create an urban link
between the old town and the new museum and a natural connection between the sea and the Tähtitornin vuor Park.
ARCHITECTURAL CONCEPT
Our design is based on the idea to build a house for the arts, a "house of rooms". We payed much attention to the desire for
openness and accessibility of the building by regarding the security and control aspects. At the same time, the museum
should be a place of interaction but also of reflection in relation to art.
The design emphasizes the public nature of the ground floor. The museum body forms in the ground floor a spacious
passage, holding public uses like dining, retail, visitor services and a performance/conference hall.
Thereby it produces a linear connection between the old town and the harbor area. The passage as a public space is the
open gesture of the museum: Due to its location and accessibility it can be used outside the opening times of the museum
and fills the museum area with life. It therefore enhances the identity of the Guggenheim Museum.
The passage follows the creative ductus of the exhibition spaces, whereby the character of the building is already
understandable while entering the museum. In addition to the programmatic task it enhances the orientation of the visitor in
the house. It also serves as an exhibition space for the presentation of spatial art or as a foyer for events.
From the natural light flooded passage, the higher exhibition galleries loop around the central circulation core. The visitor
begins his museum experience beyond the exposed escalator in the passage up to the arts – up to the light. The museum
route meanders through the terraced exhibition galleries and the multi-purpose room over stairs back into the passage. The
result is an internal cycle, which enables easy orientation. The space-sequential benefits from the changing floor heights
and offers different spatial experiences.
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Laboratory
Flexible
Performance/
Conference Hall
MULTI PURPOSE ZONE
Technic
Coat
Check/
Lockers
Kitchen
Restroom
Museum and Design Store
Stock
Room
and Offices
Cafe/ Bar
Equip./Furniture
Storage
RETAIL
Art Loading
Dock
PROGRAMS AND EVENTS
VISITOR SERVICES
DINING
MAINTENANCE AND
OPERATIONS
Restaurant
Technic
Technic
Storage
Control Room/
Projection Booth
Void
Void
Void
Void
Void
Void
Void
Visitor
Screening/
Bag Check
Ticketing
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+ 12.60
+ 7.60
+ 1.00
+ 21.50+ 18.90
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ROOMS FOR THE ARTS
In our approach, day light is crucial for the design of the gallery spaces. Due to the natural
qualities of the changing daylight the awareness of nature is introduced into the abstract
environment of the museum. With the arrangement of all the exhibition galleries on the upper
floors, our design optimizes the potential for the natural lighting of the gallery spaces through
skylight ceilings and windows.
The helical stacking of the floors allows to accommodate internal uses in the resulting lower
mezzanines, e.g. offices, conference rooms and art storage. The entire house is organized in a
way that internal and public space areas are clearly separated.
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OFFICES
COLLECTIONS STORAGE AND MANAGEMENT
EXHIBITION
EXHIBITION
TechOffices
Shipping/
Receiving
Crate
Storage
Uncrating/
Staging
Shared Art Prep/and
Equipment Storage
Art Storage
Void
Void
Void
VoidMarketing/
Development
Offices
Shared
Work Room/
Copy Room/
File Storage
Curatorial, Exhibition Design,
Publications, Archivist Offices
Administrative OfficesConference
Rooms
Education
Offices
Void
Locker Room
EXHIBITION
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The terracing of the exhibition galleries allows clear visual sightlines and views related to the environment and facilitates the
orientation, while the different spatial experiences of the exhibition areas accompany the visitor on his path. The gallery
spaces offer views in four directions and include the environment of the city of Helsinki into the exhibition experience itself.
The old town, the sea, the park and the harbor are part of the exhibition and thus illustrate the strong connection of Finland
between architecture and nature. This close bond is strengthened further through the use of wood in the public passage
facing the harbor. This gives the passage a special character and embeds the museum in the historical context of Helsinki.
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ENERGETIC APPROACH - BUILDING
The warm winter protection is best achieved by a substantially closed structure in two-peel-like construction with thermal
insulation of ≥ 25 cm strong. When summer heat protection prevent mass full, not diagonally extending, transparent vertical
components with an external sun protection a large heat input. The horizontal transparent areas are designed so that while
high-quality diffuse daylight, but little heat is introduced into the space. The building is created in massive construction,
while the thermally effective building mass is maximized by the massive interior walls. Also the elevated hollow base is
formed by a strong screed so that it has a massive impact. In this case, the mass of the subfloor must be paid in addition by
the formation of an air pressure leading to soil thermally efficient building mass. The entire cubic volume is formed in a high-
density design, so is the uncontrolled natural air change minimized.
LIGHT CONCEPT
There is only one light. The light refers to the contents and intentions - a Sous-text to some extent, which may not stage
itself. The atmosphere that creates the light is complex and central to the nature of perception and the quality of the study
of space and object. Daylight and artificial light are guided and arranged the room and the perimeter walls will get the same
light. The visitors and the works are in dialogue. The natural light, which is effective through light ceiling and a side light,
changed over the course of the day its color temperature and so brings a dynamic component in the exhibition rooms. It
can be filtered by control systems as required, scattered or completely hidden and mixed with artificial light.
The artificial light works among others with the precisely controlled propagation mode of the light diffusely - from diffuse to
selectively. This fine accents are possible, mitigated disturbing shadows and glare avoided. The use of filter technology
allows for shading the light color and thus allows a signal depth of the exhibits in the room. With good lighting tool room
scenes are subtly controlled.
The perception of color and texture, whether is of central importance in architectural or museum context. The lower the light
intensity, the more difficult it is to color perception. In addition, the visual perception of humans in artificial light range is
different in daylight. The protection of the exhibits is a top priority. The architectural concept is, in principle, two types of
gallery space before: rooms with light ceiling on the second floor and rooms with sidelight on the first floor.
FIRE PROTECTION
The building has a total of three equally massive across the entire floor plan distributed escape staircases on a sufficient
number of escape routes. The stairs are located in the cores and merge in the ground floor directly outside. From the multi-
storey passage is fled through outlets on the ground floor and through openings in the roof of the smoke extraction is
ensured.
Space conditioning and climate concept
To meet the high demands on room air hygiene, temperature, humidity and energy consumption of the required outdoor air
flow is minimized. The supply and removal of heat is consistently made on a component activation with water-carrying
pipes, the thermo-active building systems lie in the ceiling area to respond quickly to the bottom reinforcement, while the
tubes of the wall areas are made deeper in the wall of mounting reasons for the pictures. The cavity behind the luminous
ceiling is with recirculation units in addition to the thermally activated components also thermally managed, reaching in all
areas surrounding a room temperature near surface temperature and so the required constant indoor air conditions are set.
Peak loads can be removed via a variable volume flow of the ventilation system.
The air is post-conditioned room by room, to meet the individual needs of each room. The air flow in the exhibition spaces
via a push back with slot skipping in the wall area through which the air as displacement ventilation is passed in the room.
Because over the air only low heat loads must be dissipated, and the temperature gradient between the floor and ceiling
will remain minimal, which accomodates the desired temperature homogeneity in the spaces. The exhaust air is discharged
in rooms with ceiling light on a vacuum light in the ceiling by above provided joints and thus also contributes to the heat
output of the cavity behind the luminous ceiling.
In rooms without ceiling light in the air-clad brand channels is dissipated in the hollow bottom of the floor above.
MATERIAL AND FACADE
For the facade, we propose as a formative material concrete. The material locates the new Guggenheim Museum as a
tower of strength in the historical context of Helsinki's harbor - it stands for continuity. The large window and entrance
openings set a playful accent to the strict, repetitive surface structure, they follow in their arrangement the inner principles
of organization of the house. The windows are high quality fixed glazing with aluminum frame.
The roof area is covered with filled slabs of cast stone, which is mixed with natural stone. As the skylights are the
technology areas in the roof under a structure of fixed, enameled glass louvers with integrated photovoltaic elements. For
the walls and stairs we propose the use of large-format natural stone staggered cast stone elements. For the ceiling in the
passage we propose finnish wood that emphasize the public nature of the space in relation to the art galleries.
Exhibition rooms with ceiling light
The exposure of the rooms with natural light via a diffuse luminous ceiling that draws the incoming light soft. About three
meters above a horizontal glazing is for weather protection and thermal envelope of the building. This glazing sustaining a
powerful UV filter and a diffuse intermediate layer to the scattering of the incident light.
The control of daylight is achieved by two separate systems:
- External fixed louvres provide solar shading. They are equipped with pholtovoltaic
- Internal, motorized adjustable louvres allow precise control of light intensity to a complete blackout of the rooms
Showrooms with sidelight
Depth, vertical mullions protect this space already largely from direct sunlight. Against the remaining direct sunlight and
excessive exposure and overheating an External solar protection is used.
These windows are also equipped with powerful UV filters in the glass structure. A matte, internal aperture is also used here
to produce a softer and more even light inside the rooms for painting and drawing exhibitions. If necessary, temporary
panels can be used for blackout purposes. The perception of colors is defined in large part by the choice of the light source.
Therefore, the choice of lamps is of central importance. All luminaires are built on a digital control system individually
addressable and controllable. It is thus possible that strong light for any wall, or each wall portion precisely adapt to the
needs. The extensive controllability of artificial light and daylight can equal massive diffuse to accentuates any presentation
form - of the same massive diffuse to accentuated.
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