KIASMA MUSEUM,Helsinki, Finland

..RELATIONSHIP TO SURROUNDING

• The curved “cultural line links the museum to Finlandia Hall, a conference and event space that expresses a type of modernism while the straight natural line connects it to the landscape and bay.

• The whole structure consists of three main elements: two building components and water.

• The contradicting building forms meet and create harmonious architecture. The building curves to connect to the bay and Finlandia Hall, this is alike to the museum paying homage to its context while the linear elements of the building corresponds to the landscape it surrounds.

ELEVATIONS

• curve and straight

The first thing that perhaps people notice when looking at the Kiasma building is its curved glass and zinc-alloy facade; but a closer look will reveal the straight volume intertwining with it.

• outside and inside

Holl has always underlined the relationships between the building and the surrounding landscape which creates outside and inside relation.

• light and shade

light plays an emotional, along with a functional, role. This provides a vertical illumination that, also due to the curved wall enclosing the space, dramatically evolves during the times of day.

SPATIAL ORGANIZATION

• programme : art museum, galleries, theater, cafe and artist workshop

• different spatial experience, dynamic, ever changing volume

CIRCULATION : • straight and

curve

• people density change according to events

MATERIALS, CONSTRUCTION, TECHNOLOGY

• Roof- Zinc

• Wall- White Plaster Wall

• Floor- Dark grey concrete

• Windows- Glass, Aluminum as the frame

• Construction: Shape and textures of the building were designed with light in mind

• Technology: Character of the natural light change depending the material of the building and also the direction