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2) A new Guggenheim Museum > Continuous Urban and Exhibition Space

Over a long history, the function of a museum has transformed from a location for storing a private collection to something else; it has expanded to a global network with the Guggenheim Museum leading the way. Moreover, other Guggenheim Museums around the world have led this movement further in recent years by planning expreiemental workshops and events to reach new visitors. Because of this, the Guggenheim Helsinki should futher push the boundary of what a museum should be. Our proposal creates a new style of museum in which people become involved in a variety of activities and subconciously become fascinated by it.

In order to achieve it, exhibition space must not be a typical repetition of simple enclosed spaces. By mixing exhibition with other functions in between, the entire interior and exterior of the museum become appreciated. Volumes floating in the air sandwich the free, open spaces between and give forth and opportunity for people to be involved with art throughtout the year. In addi-tion, by treating exhibition space and in-between space equivalently, a synergistic effect is created. This mix simulates visitor’s, providing richer art experience for all and will widen the art culture of Helsinki, adding to the identity of Finland itself.

4) Design culture, being conscious with timber culture, architecture to be loved by Helsinki

The proportion of stacked enclosed and open volumes resemble Nordic pottery or furniture design rather than typical architec-tural form. By continuing the idea of product design as architecture as well as considering a traditional and familiar element in Finnish design, a wooden envelope surrounded the buidling preventing the effects of moisture and salinity. This use of wood also falls in line with Finnish history as since World War II the country has become an economic power thorugh the forestry industry as almost 80% of Finland is covered in forests.

3) Surrounding Park > Provides a place for people to gather

Many visitors from abroad arrive via the nearby Etelä port. And, as the site is near the heart of the city, foot and car traffic from Helsinki natives also can arrive through Esplanadi park. However, the vast plain next to the harbor is far beyond the human scale, and is not the ideal inviting environment for people to remain and actively enjoy. As this area lacks the engagement of the citizens of Helsinki, the site remains a massive urban void. This space in it’s current state becomes a just a place to pass though by necessity for citizens and visitors alike.

What we propose is to incorporate an active urban function, that of the museum, to entice visitors to this site. Our museum consists of an obeservatory to view the skyline of Helsinki, a library where gathering the knowledge of the Guggenheim, a café and restaurant for an socializing, and an outdoor plaza that can convert between an art event space or skating rink in the winter. Because our museum offers visitors many other reasons to visit the complex apart from exhibitions, we target a wider group of potential art viewers. By moving all of these functions to a vertical building, the view to the port from the low surrounding buidlings of the city is minimally interrupted. The museum, like the other tall buildings of the city, responds to the idea that it is an addition to an established urban style, and matches that idea by following the taller, thinner shape of his predecessors.

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1) Response to the History of Helsinki > High-Rise Museum

The current city of Helsinki’s cityplanning achieves an ordered, elegant cityscape with a neoclassical horizontal skyline which has been restricted in height to preserve its urban scenery.

On the other hand, architecture such as churches, the Olympic stadium, and telecommunication towers each rise above the low skyline and become important landmarks throughout the city. This contrast between the high-rise landmarks and well-ordered city secure a unique charm of Helsinki. At first glance, while appearing to be a vast site, through careful observation the surround-ing environment creates a quite cramped feeling.

The site is surrounded by heavy traffic, and a hotel and park overlooking the waterfront in the immediate vicinity. Making the museum rise above the city with a smaller footprint will help to maintain the view from the city to the sea minimally changing the current condition of the urban fabric. Meanwhile, this scheme provides a more open landscape to maintain access for visitors. Additionally, the function of the new museum represents a modern version of Helsinki’s cultural background, such as its high standard of education and advanced design industry. After considering the implications of the museum both culturally and its effects in the urban context of the city, we propose a modern tower-like museum as a new landmark for the city.

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HELSINGIN TUOMIOKIRKKO FROM GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM

GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM FROM OCEAN SKY TERRACE

When briefed with the goal of a new museum, what should the new architecture of this muesum be? For Finland, Helsinki not only acts as gateway to the country but is also caharacterised as the most important city in Finland. As a city that borders the world, there needs to be a new piece of architecture that new that can announce the city as such.

Our proposal appears as a high-rise museum, like a lily of the valley blossom aiming up to the sky. Located next to the waterfront, the site is a vast plain much larger than the human scale. Rather than erect a low-rise building which would block views to the sea, our museum becomes a high-rise tower which changes in profile moving up the height. At the ground level, there is an open and lively landscape, while at the upper level there is a platform to view over the city, these compositional element corresponds to the historical surrounding both physically and visu-ally with a dynamic three-dimensional attraction. Inside the museum, mixed use spaces of both free public activity space as well as paid exhi-bition spaces stack along a circulation path, which represents a new type of museum mixing learning, discovery, discussion, and speculation regarding the artworks.

The above volumes are each smaller and than the one below to allow natural light to enter the volumes of gallery spaces below. They are additionally narrowed at their base to create an open air public art space as well as observation deck. This continuous proportion repeated upwards creates a silhouette that is more remeniscient of Finnish product design which brings a new type of life to architecture in Finland. The museum’s soft white exterior blends well with the special climatic conditions of Helsinki’s winters, but the internal materials, while also visible from the exterior, give warmer tones of Finland’s local timber. This museum, standing in an open park next to the seaside, stands like a beautiful flower in the low angled solar altitude. Helsinki as the “White Maiden of the Baltic Sea” is represented by its new landmark, the “lily of the valley”.

Pasilan LinkkitorniCompleted :1983HeightAntenna spire:146 m (479 ft)Architect :Mikko Armanto

Guggenheim HelsinkiHelsinki Olympic StadiumCompleted :1938Height :72m (235 ft)Architect :Yrjö Lindegren :Toivo Jäntti

Helsinki Railway StationCompleted :1914Height :50m(164 ft)Architect :Eliel Saarinen

Helsinki Cathedral (tuomiokirkko)Completed :1852Height :61.90m(203ft)Architect :Carl Ludwig Engel

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Elevator first guides the visitors that have come to the museum to the top floor. There, they will be able to experience views of Helsinki that they have never experienced before from the observation deck. From this uplifting experience, they will begin to continue down, viewing the great art of the museum.

Stair and elevators direct visitors down to approximately 600 square meters of exhibition space. Beautiful natural lighting from the ceiling illuminates the exhibition space as small trees help to calm the atmosphere.

Then, from there going down, visitors arrive in a large 2-floor atrium. Here, a media library and various workshops are held where the knowledge of art from Helsinki can be accu-mulated.

Just below that, another layer of exhibition space totaling 1000 square meters provides enough space for one of the large travelling exhibitions of the Guggenheim.

After passing through the exhibition space, visitors then arrive to the media lab where art information can be found, complementing the entire experience of the day.

This way, one not only enjoys visual information but scholarly information about what they have viewed.

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B: rising three volumes have base floor at, 2F, 5F, 10F, 12F, and supported by the core. Each floors consist of truss mega structure.

C: constructing 3F, 6F 11F based on mega struc-ture C. Structure is not as massive as the other floor, and enables to construct with economical structural element.

D: cluster of inclined pieces that connect each volumes function to transfer tension and com-pression against horizontal force of wind and earthquake.

A: foundation layer beneath GL-22mFoundation reaches this layer with construction of 55m X 55m Pressure plates. Placing center of SRC structure at the center of pressure plates.

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Museum network

Constructing museum network. Guggenheim foundation, like Solo-mon R Guggenheim Museum, it constructs global museum network. Guggenheim Helsinki is a part of this and being conscious of having network with other Guggenheim Museums.

Constructing national Network

Currently, comparing with other major museums in Scandinavia for annual visitors, Denmark 790 thousand annual visitors, Norway 760 thousand annual visitors, Finland 580 visitors and Sweden 490 thou-sand visitors. If Guggenheim as speculated, to have extra annual visitor of 500 thousand for the museum, Finland will have more than a million annual visitors and become the top country for annual visitor in Scandinavia. As Guggenheim Helsinki become the most important museum in Scandinavia, there is a need not only with Gug-genheim museums but to have Finnish national wide museum network in operation.

Involvement of Helsinki citizens

By setting a body to let Helsinki citizen to join from early stage of the design, enable to deepen the understanding in design and art works. It also helps to apply the experience of Guggenheim lad for organiz-ing it.Especially, at exterior event and application for art space open to public as such, listening to the opinion of software side, it achieves being the museum to be loved by Helsinki citizens, through under-standing needs in “art experience beyond the speculation” as a char-acter of this proposal.Also, the involvement of the citizens are expected in a form of envi-ronmental consciousness, at the construction stage, bio fuel for heavy machinery will be wastage from Helsinki to be used.

Application of timber biomass as bio fuel

Finland is a top class country of energy consumption due to their weather and industry, but limited by natural resources, there is a plan to have more renewable energy such as nuclear plant and biomass. In 2008, the national energy and weather change strategy aim to have 38% of renewable energy by 2020, which is higher that EU aver-age aim of 20%, thus application of timber biomass is realistic.

Flexible operation enabled by being high-rise

Stacked exhibition space connected by EV able to correspond vari-ous sized exhibitions due to easy separation between open and non-open space within exhibition area. Thus, if the size of exhibition is small, using 2 out of 4 exhibition spaces and using the rest of 2 for preparing for the future exhibition. As a result, this can reduce period without the museum closure and can operate efficiently.

Environmental scheme allow by form.

Allowing lighting and air-con to be manipulated in each floor, real-ized efficient environmental scheme by coordinating with the form of operation. Taking advantage of its height, this achieves cost cut and running cost of air-con by chimney effect ventilation. Each twisted form between exhibitions spaces bring low angled natural light as top light. Lighting scheme is a combination with LED auto light control system reduce running cost.Aluminum mesh wrapping the entire building resist salt damage and function as insulation during winter time.

Advantage of small plot in construction

Out proposal is high-rise thus footprint of the entire building is small. Harbor area where foundation is not so stiff, has a high possibility to have foundation construction, and high-rise scheme can reduce this area. This has an advantage of reducing construction period and saving budget.

Resolving each access and landscape relates to the city

This project with small plot have advantage in answering conditions of the site. Especially, this easily resolve the access to harbor area, as an external factor. This can also secure comfortable vehicular access in an open area gained by high-rise scheme. Not only the service route, but for museum visitors, drop-off for ferry, and vehicular and man access are allow in this scheme.Laivasilankatu side of the site where divided by traffic, will be a plaza that open to the city connecting the museum and the city, while function as a buffer area for the traffic.

Structural element and architectural component to shorten the construction period.

Simple structure consists of S structure volume and SRC core, realiz-ing efficient construction period. Foundation construction, between fabricating SRC piece in a factory, S structural element to be made at the factory. These Steel structure can be delivered by using ferry for logistic, and can deliver large structure pieces. Each steel structural element are standardized and contribute to cost and fabricating time saving. These reduced construction period is important at the museum locate at the harbor area and this secures the ample of seasoning period. Astrup

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This project are consists of classic combination of structural elements, A to DEvery floor consists of well-balanced square shape, and at the upper level, the floor level gets smaller. By giving 15 degrees of twist according to urban axis, it realized studio pottery like shape, to ease the impact of its volume. These are supported by central core, and bringing it at the center of the lower floor, it supplements the stable structure, however of its fragile appearance.

　■　Top Light

Exhibition space 2 (3th floor ) and exhibition 4 (7th floor) taking natural light from top light. (light reaches (1) is coordinated through combination of direct natural light, and (2) reflected light). This coor-dinated light is automatically controlled by (3) louver system for necessary light. Finishing material on exhi-bition space, (4) high translucency glass with creamy coloured ceramic print, diffused light and bringing gentle and homogeneous light into exhibition space.

　□　Lighting system

Luminosity for exhibition space is secured by combi-nation of artificial light and natural light coming from top light that controlled by highly reflective material placed in ceiling. Realizing energy cut by applying passive system to minimize energy consumption

　■　Fasard

The entire building façade consist of aluminum mesh, has visual effect to protect the building like a clothes. This building has four external face in each 13 floors, each façade controls opening according to the inter-nal functional need and external environment, such as faming view from inside to Helsinki city line, light penetration, sensitive shadow effect

　□　Insulation effect on external skin

In order to delay heat respond of the interior tem-perature, external wall insulation system, concrete panel with insulation attached, applied.Also, concerning harsh winter external temperature, (5)30mm aerated zone applied outside the external wall insulation. This allow to exhaust internal air at the periphery to achieve double insulation layers. (6)An automatic ventilation valve releases the at in summer time and during winter time it retains heat by a thermal oil damper.These system enables to minimize heat and cooling load from sensitive air control in exhibition spaces.

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Flooring composite of 1500mm x 1500mm grid ground work with panelized finishing flooring(7). Panelized finish-ing material is adaptable for maintenance and change of finishing, Gridded ground work become base(8) for parti-tioning wall. □　Floor air-conditioning

In order to achieve, comfortable and natural environ-ment within exhibition space, and reducing air con-dition load within high ceiling space, Cross-linked polyethylene pipes (9)are laid on the floor slabs and cooling water is passed through them, so there is radiant heating and cooling from the floors and the slab exposed ceilings. 　About maintenance for sensitive air conditioning control which is vital in museum operation, a floor nozzle air conditioner placed at wall side (10) where influenced by heat load coordinate interior environ-ment and controls heavily around a person who needs body temperature coordination. Although the pump energy consumption is increased a little, the fan power which consumes most of the air condi-tioning energy is greatly reduced.

　■　Interior finishing Interior finishing of the common area applies fine Finnish conifer with concerns of material quality, processing method.These standardized and distributed timber realized high performance in maintenance and cost saving, by sliced, tongue and groove joint pro-cessed, that corresponding to compression and expansion due to heat and humidity change of timber material. Also, finishing material applied for interior space is natural wood, to create visually warm effect, and yet it cleanse air by breathing material itself. Areas where visitors touches directly applies oil finishing, and beyond FL+2200 have no paint to keep the scent of natural wood at common area.

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Flooring material applied in spaces including exhibition space is laminated Finnish Birch wood for its stiffness. To sustain elegant wood pattern and concerning durability, clear colored glass coating is applied.

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Part of the flooring on external space consist of wood deck. Birch wood with pressurized resin treated is applied, for considering salt and weathering damage.

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