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Take a look. – A Momentum for a museum of Architecture & Design in Helsinki.

A Momentum for a museum of Architecture & Design in Helsinki
In art and music, the instruments are redefined for each piece – the result is subject to the
requirements of the experimental act. The architecture is a bit away from that. It must comply
with the recognized rules of technology.
But what would we architects be if we didn’t dare to experiment?
– A child of our time!
With the planning of an architecture and design museum, we are setting a sign for the future
from the present and thus forming a footprint.
Roll forward = Roll backward. So, the author calls her architectural work of art.
That what we learn and forget as a physical experience at a young age, remains as an abstract
memory and is used again as a sign for a better understanding of the present on another level.
Every progress also throws man back to his past and every step backwards also holds progress.
The establishment of a museum marks a historic milestone with a sign of the present and later
as a sign of the past.
Now, at this place, not only are the three temporal dimensions „captured“ and brought to a point
and people are brought together in one place, but also free space is created for thoughts for
oneself and the other. People meet for direct conversations in live meetings, for lectures,
through study papers, presentations and through created products, music, art, maybe even
theater and much more.
From the creator point of view, the draft of a museum for architecture and design proposed here,
can be explained with these background thoughts.
The original is a work of art by the author in Berlin, which was created from the canvas using
various techniques that touch on tailoring, painting and sculpture it is described here as follows:
„The Momentum is wedged between two diagonally positioned coordinate points and shows the
movement of a section of canvas coming from the canvas and leading into the canvas, which
forms out of nothing and ‚moves‘ again diagonally in the opposite direction to frame it into
’nothingness‘. The colors used are white and some gold. The moment of its creation from the
„zero“- white background – and the traces of the movement with the highest elevation at the
maximum of about 7.5cm, which are depicted by it, are a sign highlighted by some gold. Both
the tracks and the sign itself. The Momentum as a sign can be a symbol of will, rebellion,
gesture, going forward or backward – depending on your point of view. Together with the title, it
recalls early childhood experiences of a roll forward and a roll backward’… One of those
movements of life that are displayed in the discipline of gymnastics with extreme precision and
various variations. It can also be detached from the context of the early childhood experience
and transferred to other contextual frameworks.
This can be said about it: the object is here rather a representation of phenomena – just as an act
that must be evaluated from different points of view and can thus produce different results…
The truth is rarely visible… The work with the ‚White‘ was influenced by the theme ‚Zero‘. White,
as the basis for every experiment… An experiment with new techniques and tools on or with the
canvas / stretcher. Color (gold) is only used where traces of the
action/movement/moment/event appear.
From the author’s point of view, this Momentum can certainly endure different perspectives and
thus also be interpreted differently – because at the end of the day everyone comes to the
conclusion – it fits as a sign for an Architecture & Design Museum. For Helsinki, it offers space
and an address for everyone as well.
The draft offers on:
− A Public space; a square on the threshold between the city and the open sea for Live-
Meetings, Music sessions or Theater or for a movie.
− semi-public space – niches and retreat areas within public spaces outside
− a green garden
− Exhibition rooms below the ground floor on the 1st basement floor and in the 2nd
basement floor
− Rooms as coffee storage and for museum administration, etc.
The construction above the terrain is a structure of the Momentum that can be derived from the
curvaceous behavior of coated textiles at the moment of elevation. Here, steel section (0.80 x
0.4 m H x W) at the edges of the curved shape is to support the structure. This design also
provides for the use of coated textiles, which are to be riveted and reinforced on the underside
by brass plates. These brass plates find an equivalent imprint on the place (roof of the museum)
in the same formation below the elevation of the Momentum, in a straight plane.
The museum rooms below the upper edge of the site are accessible via two staircases. One, on
the side of the supporting structure, leads to the entrance foyer on the 1st basement floor and
the second staircase, between the supporting structure, leads over a small bridge/landing in the
1.UG to the 2nd basement.
Delivery can be made either via these stairs or via a freight elevator in the area of the museum
administration to the 2nd basement. There are warehouses and interim storage rooms in the
immediate vicinity and in the wider vicinity the actual museum rooms with necessary sanitary
facilities.
This construction of vertical outer walls and horizontal ceilings is a concrete structure made of
impermeable concrete in double-shell construction. The space between the vertical outer walls
is used to drain overflow seawater timely and aimed. So can the actual museum rooms remain
dry.
This room for exhibitions are generously proportioned and offers plenty of space on two floors
between the columns for exhibition furnishings depending on the current concept.
The roof of the museum, which is the square here on the threshold between the city and the
seawater, was planned with slight roof pitches towards the sea to also counteract flooding.
A Museum at the threshold between the Mankind and the Nature… Never the mankind was more
confronted in front of the nature since today. Here we can look ‘back’ and ‘forward’ and make
decisions for ‘today’…
Thank you.