Serlachius Art Museum Gösta

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Serlachius Art Museum Gösta

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Type

Cultural › Gallery Museum

SIZE

500,000 sqft - 1,000,000 sqft

BUDGET

$10M - 50M

Our
proposal for the new addition of the Serlachius Museum Gösta Extension is
centered, around an architectural heart that is solving all demands of a modern
museum building. The tremendously light and generously spacious central
gathering space hosts the foyer, shop, ticketing, the assembly hall, the open circulation towards the
exhibition spaces and a direct connection to literally
every part of the new museum especially the restaurant facilities and the
surrounding park. This very strong and beautiful space will serve as a central hub and powerful
identification point for visitors and staff alike. The glass roof creates a
beautiful open space that almost appears as an outdoor area. Trees blur the
relationship between inside and outside. Views and access points to the
surrounding park will emphasize the buildings relation to its beautiful
landscape surrounding. It is like a market place or a spacious living room for
any museum activity imaginable. All other spaces are attached to this heart, like building wings. With this very simple concept, we aim to solve all functional demands
a modern museum building is facing in the 21st century.
From the beginning one of our main
objectives was to intertwine the building and the delicate environment. Through the “heart and wings” concept we are breaking up the large building mass of 4700sqm. The new building is therefore split up into a number of
squares that form a dialectic relationship towards the site and the existing
Museum building minimizing the overall impact of the site and keeping the important
visual axis’ from the existing building towards the island intact. These square like building wings are arranged in a
circular manner to form the central space, “the Heart” of the new Gösta Museum. Joenniemi Manor the existing museum building becomes a
very particular one of these wings as the tallest and oldest, its sublime
presence is still untouched and engages in an interesting dialogue with the new
clustered building addition that is cautiously connected by a barely visible underground
passageway.The new addition to the Serlachius museum keeps its
respect to its environment by creating a clustered and animated volume, that
places itself naturally within the context of the landscape, thus creating
spectacular interior spaces in a very simple manner. These spaces are perfectly
organized for any given exhibition activity within the building. This allows
for a number of up to date museum didactics and contemporary exhibition
layouts. The spatial worlds that are created by this architecture and the
mysterious and at the same time confident cubature in the park stimulate an
attraction that is appropriate to the buildings content. The differentiated
spatial sequences that render themselves perfect for a number of sophisticated
and efficient exhibition designs also allow the visitor to experience
multifaceted and impressive spatial encounters of high diversity. Even though,
the building represents a humble but self-confident reaction to its
environment, it has the power to exceed above the boundaries of Finland and
therefore represents a perfect fit for the importance of the Serlachius
collection and any museum concept at this site.

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MCKNHM Architects

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Serlachius Art Museum Gösta

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