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The Productive Museum
NEUBAU TEAM:
Liam Cooke
Brgs Lenz
DESIGN TEAM:
Atelier Ten
The Stonemasonry Company
KMC Transport
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Architecture and design are creative processes. Buildings and objects are their ultimate products. A contemporary museum of architecture and design needs to evolve beyond a passive display mechanism, into an institution that communicates actively and meaningfully these processes and their products.
The proposal for the New Museum of Architecture and Design is for a building that will facilitate a new type of productive institution, a public space, true to its site, where architecture and design are not only exhibited as objects and processes but also produced. Three main concepts have guided the design to achieve this goal: The Production Tunnel – a 9m high multifunctional tunnel running the entire length of the building; Rooms to Host Buildings – spaces to exhibit 1:1 structures up to 3 storeys in height; Local Materials – Finnish timber and Helsinki granite together create both a sustainable and contextual building.
The building’s overall form and volume organise its functions and flows. The Tunnel separates public, front of-house spaces in the east from operational, back-of house functions in the west. The white box in the north signifies the main public aspect of the building while the black timber tower in the south hosts layers of public and private uses.
The main vertical circulation and services distribution shafts utilise the height of the tower at the intersection between these 2 main volumes to distribute to all floors of the building.
