MATTEO CAINER ARCHITECTS ORIGAMI INSPIRED EXTENSION
PROJECT: Gösta Serlachius Museum extention CLIENT: Gösta Serlachius Fine Arts Foundation LOCATION:Mänttä, Finland PROJECT ARCHITECTS: Matteo Cainer Architects Ltd COMPLETION DATE: Expected autumn 2014 GROSS AREA: 4,760sqm ESTIMATED COST: 155 million euros
The project for the expansion of the Gösta Serlachius Museum, presents an opportunity to explore a creative relationship between the existing museum and the surrounding landscape. Through a new and distinctive poetic architectural language, the project aims to create a harmonious ensemble that blurs the boundaries between the existing and the new. The Museum, located at Joenniemi Manor in Finland, was
originally opened in 1945 as a showcase for factory owner, Gösta Serlachius’s extensive art collection; The Museum now receives up to 30, 000 visitors annually. The extension will introduce a new informality to the museum through a series of fluid volumes that establish an exciting relationship between the house, the existing grounds and the landscape beyond. The project provides an entrance and orientation space, the ‘heart’ of the extended museum, which will lead to a series of dramatically lit flexible spaces for exhibitions,
conferences, educational activities and other public events. Gösta Serlachius’ extensive business interests in wood and paper
processing supported his life-long passion and support of the arts; it is therefore through a reinterpretation of these two elements that the proposed extension expresses the pivotal role and influence of the Serlachius family. The form of the Serlachius house, especially the roof, is the template for the new building. The geometry of the roof planes are folded and cut in the manner of paper origami - folding-paper and kirigami - folded and cut shapes, to develop a complex sequence of architectural spaces that slowly unfold to create a new layered experience. As in origami, the number of basic folds is small, but the evolving
geometry results in a series of intricate shapes of surprising complexity. The nature of these is far removed from the walls and roof elements of a traditional building. The structure and building envelope are expressed as a single
component that can be manufactured from a variety of wood products to meet the geometrical tolerances of the structure and the capacity for snow loads. This integrated approach results in day lit column-free spaces that express a variety of unusual forms and volumes internally. Clad in bitumen-coated weatherboarding, the extension is punctuated by a series of external glazed fins that allow controlled daylight to illuminate internal surfaces, generating surprising and inspiring effects that change through the seasons.
The geometry of the roof planes are folded and cut like a paper origami or kirigami piece of art.
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