EAST FACADE
CITYPLAN
SCALE 1:3000
CITYSCAPE CONCEPT
The building site of the new Guggenheim museum of Helsinki is situated on the shore
of the city’s south harbour. The plot, which we interpret as an urban sea promenade
with intensive citizen activity would turn into a new pole of dynamic attraction of the
city. The promenade acts as the limit of the city and acquires necessary attributes of the
landscape as an isolated and compact volume, that is 60m x 60m width x 32m height.
The orientation of the building towards the sea in relation to the urban fabric shows its
autonomous state confirming the fact that it doesn’t belong to the city but to the landscape.
VIEW TO THE ENTRANCE
“We can access the new building via a ramp connected to the promenade and the park. The park and the pond outside is surrounded by trees and have been created as an exterior hall which leads the architectural promenade into
the mysterious interior”
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NORTH EAST VIEW
ARCHITECTURAL CONCEPT
SOUTH EAST VIEW
The new Guggenheim Museum in Helsinki is presented as an isolated piece of the Finnish landscape converted into architecture.
A building that draws its form from the abstraction of the elements that define the landscape, the
forests, the lakes and the high blue sky that covers everything.
The perimeter is constructed of towers evoking the grid of trees of Finnish forests encloses in its
interior an empty space as if it was a lake bathed in daylight. This empty space is related to the exterior by two large openings, one at the entrance of the building and another one facing the sea.
The form and the materialization of the building constructed of a white, smooth and polished
concrete reflects the changing light and converts the construction into a dense, profound and
mysterious building that approaches the landscape as if it was part of it.
EXHIBITION ROOM 3
EXHIBITION ROOM 2
EXHIBITION ROOM 1
OFFICES MULTIPURPOSE ZONE
DINING
OFFICES
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CIRCULATION
DINING F1 Café/Bar
F2 Formal Restaurant
F3 Kitchens
IVF
1093 sm
MULTIPURPOSE ZONE 1225 sm
C1 Atrium museum
C2 Hall conference hall
C3 Terrace
PROGRAMS AND EVENTS 647 sm
B1 Conference Hall
B2 Laboratory
COLLECTION STORAGE &
IIIF
MANAGEMENT
372 sm
H1 Art Storage
H2 Shipping Receiving
H3 Crate storage
H4 Registrar, Conservation, Exhibition
EXHIBITION ROOM 3
VISITORS
384 sm
D1 Visitor Screening/bag check
D2 Coat check/Lockers
D3 Ticketing and information desk
RETAIL E1 Museum and design store
E2 Stock room and offices
384 sm
OFFICES IIF
744 sm
G1 Administrative office
G2 Archivist offices
G3 Education Offices
G4 Marketing and development offices
G5 Conference room
MANTEINANCE
372 sm
I1 Security office
I2 Custodial office
I3 IT server
I4 Supply, equipment and seasonal
furniture
I5 Landscape and grounds Maintenance Equipment
I6 Staff Lunch room
I7 Lockers Room
IF
UNASSIGNED AREA
J1 Mechanical/electrical/
plumbing
248 sm
EXHIBITION ROOM 1
A1 Central hall (38m x 38m x 17m
height)
EXHIBITION ROOM 2
A2 Longitudinal galleries (10m width
x 12m height)
EXHIBITION ROOM 3
A3 Longitudinal galleries (10m width
x 4.5m height)
GF
EXHIBITION ROOM 2
PLAN - GROUND FLOOR 1.500
PLAN - FIRST FLOOR 1.500
EXHIBITION ROOM 1
PLAN - SECOND FLOOR 1.500
PLAN - THIRD FLOOR 1.500
PLAN - FOURTH FLOOR 1.500
BOARD 04_ SUSTAINABILITY
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1 ADJUSTABLE BRISE SOLEIL
2 DOUBLE-PAN WINDOW
Insulating glass with low-conductance spacer.
3 EXTERNAL WALL
Hand-polished white reforced
concrete
Vapor control layer
Thermal insulation
Plaster
4 EXTERNAL SLAB
Grable
Primary thermal insulation
Secondary thermal insulation
Reinforced concrete
Drop ceiling
5 INTERNAL WALL
White reforced concrete
Plaster
6 INTERNAL SLAB
Marble flooring
Mortar
weinforced concrete
Drop ceiling
7 INTERNAL LITTLE WALLS
White reforced concrete
8 GROUND FLOOR SLAB
Marble flooring
Mortar
Reinforced concrete
Thermal insulation
Reinforced concrete
ECOLOGY AND SUSTAINABILITY
The building promotes participation of
pluralistic society, in which all citizens
take responsibility for environment. It
minimize the use of energy and emissions, intensified energy efficiency and
extensive utilization of renewable energy sources from the natural areas.
WHITE PHOTOCATALITIC CONCRETE
The material was selected after considering their life cycle assessment: Concrete is made recycling end-of-life local
material and reuse it as aggregate. The
photocatalysts (TiO 2), using solar energy,
change organic and inorganic pollutants in CO 2, H 2O and other harmless substances.
NATURAL ELEMENTS
1-2 A closed and introverted volume
combined with the outside vegetation
provides the building with an apropiate
thermal control.
3-4 Rainwater collected in a tank under
the building, which it’s reused to supply
toilets and to water the trees.
5 Exterior sun shading to minimize
thermal gain. According to exposition’s
needs, brise soleil rotate. Displacement
ventilation system for optimal stratification and high air quality with minimal
energy use.
INTERIOR VIEW _ HALL
INTERIOR SPACE VIEW