Museum of History and Future

  • Data: Gennaio 2024.
  • Tipologia: Concorso.
  • Dimensione: 20.000 m².
  • Localizzazione: Turku, Finlandia.

The museum of history and the future (MOHF) aims to create a device capable of relating directly to the context in which it is inserted. The deliberately horizontal development places emphasis and finds the forms in the old fortifications but which, in the project presented, instead of isolating it from the outside, facilitates longitudinal and transversal travel by means of numerous stairs, allowing complete use without being closely connected to the exhibition areas. The permeability arises from the historical reference of the primordial traces of the “Jätinkirkko” in which despite the thick walls there is a strong openness allowing complete use.

n. 1- Context and proposal.
n. 2 – Entrance view.

The landscape that opens up to sailors after passing the museum is that of thousands of small islands, individual fragments that emerge from the surface of the sea and create their own universe. The twenty-seven volumes that emerge from the platform want to symbolize those islands, each with its own function and its own universe, as if to show what will be found in front of you during navigation. A symbol of departure and arrival that helps with the visual and sensorial transition, a product of man but which is perceived as an object already present in history.

n. 3 -Exhibition hall.
n. 4 – Lobby.

The volumes, twenty-seven intersecting cubes, create a representation of the towers of a castle which alternate at different heights, some quarries suitable for hosting large works of art, others, thanks to an internal distribution system, allow you to reach the roofs, real green ecosystems that allow you to observe the landscape from different points of view.

n. 5 – Façade Construction system.
n. 6 – Section.
n. 7- Structure Axo.
n. 8 – Structure Axo with force diagram.

All the steel facades and the extreme ease of assembly and disassembly help to make the entire complex contemporary and projected towards the future. Breaking away from traditional shapes, it presents itself as a unique micro-perforated surface to allow the penetration of light and is able to reflect the context and circumstances, mimicking the various phases of the day and year. A chameleon-like skin that helps the project disappear into the context. In these micro-perforations there will be space for numerous LED panels which will allow the insertion of messages related to exhibitions and events which can be updated according to needs. The writings inserted into reflective steel panels will thus find themselves floating in the sky and creating an ever-changing landscape.

Area Plan

n. 9 – Roof Plan and context.
n. 10 – Ground Floor.
n. 11 – First Floor.