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GENERAL BASICSAs specified in the competition description, Guggenheim Museum on

the Laivansillankatu in Helsinki will be a venue for internationally sig-

nificant exhibitions of 20th and 21st century art, thus also a temporary

storage place for contemporary art.

Its location at the centre of the city’s largest harbour, a rather rough

spot amidst the urban fabric, presents a structural challenge and sup-

ports its social and educative character.

As independent architecture, the Museum blends into an environment

dominated by the Baltic Sea, a vast square, the quay wall and ships

that dock there.

A broad ramp winds upwards from the level of the quay into the Mu-

seum. The new shipping terminal could lie beneath this ramp.

That means the Museum would not just be another facility for the ci-

ty’s cultural life, but a vibrant place in which to celebrate the meaning

of art and architecture for people’s lives – not only for tourists, but,

above all, for the people of Helsinki themselves.

Besides fulfilling functional requirements and providing a host of

technical possibilities for staging exhibitions, the aim is to create

showcase architecture as an innovative and unique symbol for modern

Helsinki.

FACADEThe facade of GUGGENHEIM enables the interior of a building to be

experienced on the outside, too.

That means that this Museum presents itself as pulsating architecture

to passers-by, cruiser passengers and, in general, to all urban resi-

dents.

When events such as exhibitions, performances, art congresses, etc.,

are going on inside the building, coloured shadows move along its

facades. This experience is especially intensive in the evening, when

Guggenheim Museum illuminates the harbour with its giant, colourful

body of light. Inversely, the Museum’s interior is illuminated by exterior

light sources that shine like “little suns” through the façade.

The structure of the façade is expressed by a construction of supports

and braces, spreading out the building’s contour on the edges. In the

roof area, these duct constructions are connected to wide span trus-

ses that support the roof with a secondary subdivided construction.

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OPTIONAL USE OF THE EXHIBITION SPACE_e.g. Extensive Use of the Entire Museum Space for Temporary Exhibitions and Performances

The large amount of museum space allows large-scale installations,

through to the extensive use of the entire museum space for large

events, such as by temporary installation of intermediate floors at

different levels (prefabricated system).

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SECTION B-B SECTION A-A

02CONCEPT DESIGN

Art works hang, stand, lie or are “stacked up”, and performances meet in the 20m-high hall. Or temporary levels are inserted to double the exhibition space. In-house engineering and technical service rooms and larger storage rooms are located in the basement.

INTERIOR SPACES The exhibition hall is 20m high, approximately 70m wide and 60m long.

As a merely 7m-deep wall consisting of panels and panes, the façade exten-

ding to the top of the building closes the exhibition hall towards the entrance.

At the same time, it opens up views over the city, providing access to the Mu-

seum (open exhibition area) over the terrace in front. Alongside the entrance

and elevator area, this “three-dimensional shelf” façade also accommodates a

whole host of other amenities such as a restaurant, café and art shop as well

as all administrative departments, workshops, club and community rooms.

Staff and VIPs can use the staircase/elevator in the southwest corner of the

building.

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WHITE SAILS IN SPACEThe vertical supports and rods of the supporting steel structure can be used

for mounting paintings or art installations if they are covered with shatter-

resistant gypsum board. They are then stiff, white sails in the museum space.

STRUCTURE‘S USE AS PERFOR-MANCE AND EXHIBITION SPACEThe steel construction itself as a fire protected construction can be used as

exhibition and performance space, as an image carrier and as a living space,

populated by floating Avatars - as our example shows.

As an exemplary installation that can be realised both virtually and as a holo-

gram, or as a real live artist collective, the structure’s use in peripheral areas

is represented by avatars “flying” through free space that can be seen as co-

loured silhouettes from the outside as well.

Art works hang, stand, lie or are “stacked up”, and performances meet in the

20m-high hall.

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SUSTAINIBILITY

The energy concept is based on the aim of supplying energy

to the overall project in such a way as to conserve resources

and on the required conditions for using a modern building

with the planned structure.

In order to supply the total energy required over the full year

of operation with a minimum of primary energy, renewable

energies such as

- geothermal heating and cooling

- air volume flow control optimised for demand

will be used in the project.

The various scenarios of use according to the competition invi-

tation for the overall project, and above all the high level of fle-

xibility of the special exhibition space for exhibitions and other

events, are taken into account in the air-conditioning concept

and above all the air routing system. At different operating

times, every area has the maximum necessary air volume for

air-conditioning and in order to achieve optimal room air con-

ditions. These can occur at different times to other areas.

In order to minimise total running costs and investment costs,

a system has been planned with a central air supply and

exhaust air system and volume flows allocated to specific zo-

nes. It can thus be operated during large-scale events in the

special exhibition space for several hours without the need for

a large ventilation system for these few days in the year.

All areas have low-impulse air intake close the floor, which ma-

kes it possible to reduce the volume of air required to create

an optimal room climate by 30% compared with conventional

traditional air-conditioning systems.

04SUSTAINABILITY MATERIAL

BASIC CONCERNING STRUCTURES AND CONSTRUC-TION, FEASIBILITY

This project presents itself as a translucent, approximately

25m-high building. Made from Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE)

and Ethylene tetrafluoroethylene (ETFE) in combination with

polyurethane-coated Spandex and translucent Aerogel heat

insulation fleece in between, the “fabric body” of this building

delivers a highly effective structural envelope as a façade.

This “curtain” is tear-resistant, inflammable, UV resistant, resi-

lient and highly insulating, as well as self-cleaning and trans-

lucent.

Owing to its excellent properties, this material has been

used in many new examples of architecture.

Refined PTFE fulfils almost all requirements demanded

from sustainable building material. It has been on the

market for 80 years without showing signs of fatigue and

hazardous emissions.

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