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HIMMELI
1. SUMMARY
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HIMMELI is a radical new way of linking art and public space, drawing the city
into the museum in winter and dispersing the museum throughout the city
in summer.
This animated icon for art acts as a seasonal beacon and symbol of seasonal
activities in the museum. The art a-top the moving plinth is commissioned
from a new artist every summer, while the ice-skating rink pavilion in front of
the museum is installed by an emerging architecture firm every winter.
Himmeli are traditional Scandinavian decorations that denote good luck and
act as a seasonal markers for the Harvest and Christmas. The name comes
from the German for sky or heaven. The overall geometry down to the facade
detail relates to this element, as does the moving plinth that reaches towards
the sky.
WORLD
HELSINKI
PARK
HARBOUR
SOUTH
During the snowy Helsinki winter the museum becomes a warm public hub
that invites citizens and visitors into a bustling interior city, which, besides
art display, includes a lively Finnish café, a gourmet restaurant that spills
out into the indoor atrium and a thriving modern theatre scene, threaded
through with winter gardens. The interim spaces between the galleries are
truly public, green spaces, to be enjoyed by all.
In summer the museum literally opens up: an enormous, glittering roof lifting
off over the central atrium to transform it into a sheltered but airy courtyard
and providing a new look-out tower above for visitors to view the harbour. As
the central atrium roof lifts off, it provides a new access to the large roof, which
becomes a generous, raised public-square, receiving pop-up restaurants and
bars, exhibits and performance spaces. The museum also deploys art and
performances along a chain of green spaces, of which Guggenheim Helsinki
forms a central link.
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SITE PLAN
EMIT
Ferry, public square, park
and harbour are linked through atrium
SUMMER
NORTH
WEST
HIMMELI provides a literal
LINK link between land and sea: between the city of
Helsinki and the international Guggenheim network; a cultural gateway
between the ferry terminal and the city; and a continuous public space
between the park and the waterfront. Public circulation threads directly
through the heart of the museum.
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ANIMATE
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CITY IN THE MUSEUM
THERMAL
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STACK EFFECT
WINTER
SEASONAL
EVENTS &
FESTIVALS
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DECEMBER
JANUARY
FEBRUARY
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JULY
AUGUST
SEPTEMBER
OCTOBER
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Doc Point Documentary
Film Festival
Christmas Market
Tango Frostbite
Lux Helsinki
We Jazz
New Year’s Eve
Penkinpainajaisajot
StrEat Helsinki
Helsinki Beer Festival
Viapor Winter Blues
Walpurgis Night
IHME Contemporary Art
Festival
Helsinki Photography Biennial
Vappu
World Village Festival
Naisten Kymppi
Animatricks Festival
Helsinki Samba Carnival
Helsinki Day
Helsinki Cup
Tuska Festival
Helsinki Festival
Love & Anarchy Film Festival
The Night of the Arts
Helsinki Pride Festival
Flow Festival
Taste of Helsinki
Art Goes Kapakka
Forces of Light Festival
Helsinki Baltic Herring Fair Suomenlinna Christmas Event
Helsinki International Horse Show
Baltic Circle International
Theatre Festival
Helsinki Marathon
PROPOSED
SNOW & ICE FESTIVAL
ICE SKATING FESTIVAL
WHITE NIGHTS FESTIVAL
HIMMELI is also programmatically tied to the city of Helsinki - its program of
events tying specfically into the existing festivals that are such a key part of
Helsinki life.
HELSINKI CARNIVAL
SWAN & FLOWER DAY
COLOR BUCKET FESTIVAL
KIDS PARADE
GUGGENHEIM
HELSINKI:
For example, the Guggenheim Helsinki will participate in Helsinki Design Week,
showcasing Finnish architecture and design objects in its public galleries
and forming part of the route. During the Helsinki Festival, the Guggenheim
Helsinki will spill its contents onto a newly defined GREEN ART CIRCUIT,
completing a green cycle and pedestrian route, along which outdoor art
exhibits will be displayed.
NOVEMBER
SNOW & ICE
FESTIVAL
FINNISH FOCUSSED SHOW
SWAN &
FLOWER DAY
ELECTRO/POWER FESTIVAL
SUN FESTIVAL
SMALL GLOBAL SHOW
KIDS & ART
EVENT
KIDS & ART EVENT
WATER POLO CHAMPIONSHIP
LARGE GLOBAL SHOW
YOGA DAY
INDUSTRIAL DESIGN WEEK
FREE CINEMA WEEK
CLASSICAL MUSIC FESTIVAL
INDUSTRIAL
DESIGN WEEK
FISH & CHIPS EVENT
NORDIC DESIGN SHOW
ATMOSPHERE &
SEASONAL
SHAPE
HIMMELI makes a visual link to existing Helsinki monuments, visible from
the museum and if of an appropriate scale to these and other Guggenheims
across the world.
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CONSERVE
Nordic collections and events from the festival are hosted in the museum
during HELSINKI DESIGN WEEK.
MUSEUM IN THE CITY
The Abattoir
Guggenheim piggy-backs the HELSINKI FESTIVAL, extending Guggenheim
exhibits into the city along the newly defined GREEN ART CURCUIT.
GREEN ART CIRCUIT
MASSING
VIEWS TO LANDMARKS
The GREEN ART CIRCUIT redefines an existing necklace of green spaces,
Massing of the new Guggenheim Helsinki compared to previous Guggenheim’s and key Helsinki monuments.
accessible by a continuous cycle and pedestrian route. The route becomes a
new exhibition loop within the city.
The new Guggenheim Helsinki functions as a new icon for the city with
associated public spaces, as at the Helsinki and Uspenski Cathedrals.
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Kulttuuritehdas Korjaamo oy
Helsinki City Theatre
Finnish National Opera
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Huvila Festival Tent
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HELSINKI ICONIC ARCHITECURE
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Viirus Theatre
Helsinki Music Centre
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Festival City - KoeHelsinki, Kansalaistori
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PEGGY GUGGENHEIM COLLECTION
HEIGHT: 20M
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Finnish National Theatre
Taidehalli Museum (Kunsthalle Helsinki)
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Bio Rex Cinema
Lasipalatsi Sqaure
Ritarihuone
Shopping Centre Kluuvi
Old Student House
Annantalo Arts Centre
Market Square
Klockriketeatern,
Diana Stage
The Cable Factory, Pannuhalli
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Amos Anderson
Art Museum
Orion Cinema
The Cable Factory, Pannuhalli
JUNE
CONSERVE
Tuomaan Markkinat
HIMMELI PROPOSES TO MEET THE BRIEF IN FOUR MOVES:
LINK
Linked into existing Helsinki festivals
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Finnish Museum of Photography
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ELEVATION STUDIES
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SOLOMON R. GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION
HEIGHT: 50M
1997
GUGGENHEIM BILBAO
HEIGHT: 57M
2011-2013
BMW GUGGNEHEIM LAB
HEIGHT: 10M
2017
GUGGENHEIM ABU DHABI
HEIGHT: 92M
2018
GUGGENHIEM HELSINKI
WINTER HEIGHT: 24.2M
SUMMER HEIGHT: 42.9M
1952
HELSINKI CATHEDRAL
HEIGHT: 82.3M
1868
UPENSKI CATHEDRAL
HEIGHT: 70.5M
HIMMELI
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WINTER:
The atrium is closed and functions as an covered courtyard or winter
garden. Outdoor activities are offered in the public square in front of the
Guggenheim, including a skating rink with a pavilion, at its centre serving
gluhwein and issuing skates. This pavilion will be d and act as a showcase for
Scandinavia’s vibrant design economy. The atrium will house indoor events
and performances - a kind of giant theatre at the heart of the Guggenheim.
SPRING:
As the days lengthen and the sun rises in the sky, the atrium begins to
be opened on sunny days and lowered again on cold and rainy days. It’s
movements begin to broadcast the coming warmer weather and new series
of events to the city; acting as a new technological town-clock of sorts.
SUMMER:
The atrium is fully opened create an exterior courtyard at the heart of the
museum. Every year a major piece of artwork is commissioned for the large
rising plinth. A walkway around the moving plinth acts as a lookout point for
the harbour. The moving crown is a plinth to both people and art.
AUTUMN:
The days begin to shorten the the plinth becomes lowered more often.
Autumnal food festivals, featuring berries and mushrooms, are held in the
restaurant and food stalls within the atrium.
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HIMMELI’s EMIT
shimmering
façade and seasonally responsive moving art plinth
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provide a four-dimensional icon, animated by the seasons both formally and
in terms of its events program:
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EXTRA LARGE
GLOBAL GUGGENHEIM GALLERY TYPES
CIRCULATION
THERMAL
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HIMMELI is a decorated shed, packed with programs gathered from the city
of Helsinki (shops, restaurants, cafes, performance spaces) and with gallery
types, collected from across the Guggenheim constellation.
CONSERVE
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By inserting a wide range of existing Guggenheim gallery types, Guggenheim
Helsinki can accommodate almost any Guggenheim travelling exhibition
within it’s compact, yet widely varying spaces.
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PEGGY GUGGENHEIM, VENICE
The Guggenheim Helsinki functions as a major showcase for Finnish art and
architecture. These exhibits are first shown here before being sent out across
the world into the other Guggenheim museums.
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PEGGY GUGGENHEIM, VENICE
GUGGENHEIM BILBAO
GUGGENHEIM BILBAO
SMALL
GUGGENHEIM ABU DHABI
MEDIUM
HELSINKI GUGGENHEIM GALLERY TYPES
PEGGY GUGGENHIEM GALLERIES
LARGE
CLASSICAL GALLERIES
CURVED GALLERIES
GUGGENHEIM NEW YORK
EXTRA LARGE
TALL GALLERIES
FISH GALLERY
PEGGY GUGGENHEIM, VENICE
GUGGENHEIM BMW LABS
CONES
Public routes and the central public atrium, brings Helsinkians from the city
and tourists from the ferry through and affording glimpses into, the galleries
and other programs. The Guggenheim Helsinki becomes a hub of programs,
a mini slice of city.
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show masing of box at 12000sm and
sourounding circulation
show rampled landscape, paths, stairs
and atrium linking from exising circulation
show program piled in with all
different colores of stuff
GUGGENHEIM HELSINKI: SEASONAL MIGRATION STUDY OF GLOBAL ARTWORKS AND VIEWERS
HIMMELI FORM
12,000 square meter box
show masing of box at 12000sm and
sourounding circulation
GUGGENHEIM CONSTELLATION
Add public routes
show rampled landscape, paths, stairs
and atrium linking from exising circulation
Pack with Guggenheim gallery types and programs
show
in with all
gatheredprogram
from the citypiled
of Helsinki
different colores of stuff
Sculpt roof
show carved out roof, foute, glass at
base and overhang
Add animated art plinth
shine light out of glass and show pattern on glass with popped up gem
WINTER: FINNISH ARTWORKS LOANED OUT TO GLOBAL CONSTELLATION AND MUSEUM PROVIDES PUBLIC
SOCIAL AND ORGANIZATION SPACE FOR HELSINKI COMMUNITY.
SUMMER: GUGGENHEIM HELSINKI TAKES IN SPECIAL EXHITIONS FROM THE GLOBAL CONSTELLATION AND
FILLS MUSEUM AND THE CITY OF HELSINKI WITH THE WORLDS GREATEST ART AND ART VIEWERS.
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HIMMELI
4. CONSERVE
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BUDGET:
OPERATIONS AND ACCESS:
ART AND LIGHT:
Lorries carrying the artworks can back into the side entrance here and so that
the loads can be transferred directly to the main art lift. From here the lift
accesses every floor for the installation and deinstallation of art.
The Himmeli inspired skin uses a timber curtain-wall structure to filter light and
reduce glare, especially during the low winter sun conditions, while retaining
tranparency and framed views towards Helsinki’s harbour skyline. The size of
the himmeli frame structure varies with each facade to respond to views and
climatic conditions, being densest on the southern facade and most open
towards the north. Areas of the structure are made solid where program
behind requires this and is then filled with insulation to mitigate energy loss
through the facade skin.
Trucks will enter the museum using the trunk road that runs alongside the main
road to the ferry terminal. A bank of storage, maintenance and operations
rooms, and offices above are located in this area of the building.
Galleries are clustered within the building with access from the central atrium
so that when erecting and dismantling shows these spaces may be cordoned
off from the rest of the building.
€8,000/m2
CONSERVE
HIMMELI is also conservative with its budget - using simple, tried and tested
components to maximum effect. It is efficient with its operations and access
routes: its primary public route is an accessible ramp.
The design is future-proofed in terms of its legacy. Essentially a large shed,
filled with program, the insides of HIMMELI can be altered very simply without
affecting the structure, the primary circulation or the envelope.
PAINTING & SMALL SCULPTURE
INDIRECT CONTROLLED LIGHT
LARGE SCULPTURE & INSTALLATION
INDIRECT NATURAL LIGHT
ARCHITECTU
NATURAL LIG
FRACTURED LIGHT
€10,000/m2
The louvred skin reduces solar gain and winter sun glare. The planted roof
reduces rain water run-off and encourages biodiversity. The structure is
made from 100% Finnish timber, made into monolithic glulam beams in a
local factory.
NATURAL LIGHT
HIMMELI FACADE DETAIL
The budget provided for the Helsinki Guggenheim can be bench-marked
against a number of other iconic art museums, worldwide, where Helsinki sits
right in the middle:
HIMMELI is an ecologically sustainable proposal, designed to conserve
energy via maximum energy efficiency, using the opening atrium as a valve
that reduces the need for air conditioning via the stack effect and acting as a
thermal buffer in the winter that helps to keep heat inside the building.
INDIRECT NATURAL LIGHT
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ART + LIGHT
NEW MEDIA NO NATURAL LIGHT
The construction costs for the museum are given at €100million, excl. soft
costs and VAT for a building of 12,100 sqm, or €8,264 per square meter
STACK EFFECT
INDIRECT CONTROLLED LIGHT
€6,000/m2
There are two sets of lifts to either side of the atrium. The ramp within the
atrium is 1:12.5 and appropriate for wheelchair users. All three entrances are
via level thresholds.
€4,000/m2
€2,000/m2
HIMMELI proposes a range of gallery lighting conditions, from completely
closed boxes, to indirect daylight via tubes to the roof and filtered natural
lighting via the glazed facade.
NEW MEDIA NO NATURAL LIGHT
PAINTING & SMALL SCULPTURE
INDIRECT CONTROLLED LIGHT
LARGE SCULPTURE & INSTALLATION
INDIRECT NATURAL LIGHT
ARCHITECTURE
NATURAL LIGHT
HIMMELI FACADE DETAIL
HIMMELI
FRACTURED LIGHT
FACADE DETAIL
FRACTURED LIGHT
The structure is composed of repeating timber and glass modules that can be
replaced if necessary and where there is an economy of scale in production.
Himmeli references the traditional Scandinavian good-luck charm, made of
straws and string, that were hung in the house to bring a bountiful harvest.
Tate Modern
Figge Art Centre
Whitney
Downtown
Guggenheim Hepworth Wakefield
Helsinki
Art Institute of
Chicago
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The structure is a simple box, comprised of standard components, the majority
of which pre-fabricated in local timber factories. The moving platform
achieves a spectacular effect with a very simple and standard lift mechanism,
commonly used in stage design. The glass and timber facade would be
fabricated off-site in panels. All its components are simply repeated and do
not require individual fabrication. The interior partitions would be simple,
lightweight rendered boxes.
It seems reasonable to suggest that the proposal would sit between the
Barbara Hepworth Gallery, Wakefield by David Chipperfield and the Whitney
Downtown in terms of the proposed specifications and would therefore meet
the budgetry requirements. Should cost savings be required these may be
achieved by scaling down the weight or distance of by which the structure
moves by and by simplifiying the external skin in areas where the exterior of
the museum is less visible, such as alongside the ferry terminal.
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HIMMELI STUCTURE
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Lightweight timber diamond structure with platform
Operable louvres
Internal timber-framed volumes (gallery space) - possibly suspended from roof
Hydraulic pistons support at corners & retract
into column below, containing hydraulic rams
Highly insulated timber roof
HIMMELI STUCTURE + HELSINKI
Skylight
Glazed facade to atrium
Extract
Heavy auditorium loads supported on concrete frames
(all elements precast)
Further insulation of gallery boxes
Fully fire protected timber trusses (clad & insulated) support roof
and double-skin curtain wall facade
EXTERNAL CONDITIONS:
Atrium
SEMI-CONTROLLED CONDITIONS:
Circulation Spaces
CONTROLLED CONDITIONS:
Gallery
Timber framed gallery box
Main columns supporting roof are large precast concrete sections
(Good for quality finish & allows year-round construction)
Main roof column
Double skin facade
Natural ventiliation through
low level openable grilles
Suspended slab
Underfloor plenum for all-air
displacement ventilation
Piled foundations below main columns, with main vertical loads supported on ground beams
Pad foundations below secondary columns
Main concrete frame
External ramp circulation structure - reinforced concrete, supported on ground beams/piles
STRUCTURAL:
The structural frame aims to use as many components constructed off-site as
possible, to increase quality control, speed up construction and allows works
to take place through the winter season.
Additionally, the structure aims to use as much timber as is appropriate for
the primary structure, given that it is one of Finland’s most valuable resources.
The long-spanning roof is formed of deep timber trusses which span between
large diameter precast concrete columns. The trusses cantilever at the building
perimeter and into the atrium, with columns located along the fold-lines of
the roof geometry. The timber is fully protected from fire and moisture to
comply with all requirements of the Finnish building code.
Main roof columns are supported on piled foundations, with secondary
columns landing on pad foundations and ground beams. A suspended
precast concrete slab, capable of supporting high art gallery loads, spans
between the foundations. Gallery floors are similarly formed with precast
concrete columns, beams and planks. The ceilings and upper galleries are
timber framed, again fully encapsulated.
The perimeter façade to the building is supported by lightweight trusses
and tension cables to maximise transparency and views out.
The central atrium is capped by a lightweight tubular steel structure which
supports the observation walkway and artwork plinth. The supports for this
structure sit on hydraulic pistons, which are housed within columns in the
atrium. During warmer periods of the year or for special events, the hydraulic
pistons elevate the structure above the roof plane. The equipment used for
the movement is well established for hydraulic elevators and moving stage
equipment.
LIFECYCLE AND LEGACY:
The large shed-like structure of Himmelli is constructed with renewable,
locally grown and fabricated timber elements, clad to meet Finnish fire
regulations and to protect the timber from the harsh marine environment.
These elements are all replaceable and recyclable.
Interior partitions and walls are lightweight plasterboard elements that can
be easily dismantled and erected, while services are carried through the
building via the central atrium core. The overall enclosed space is not packed
full and further galleries and spaces could easily be added in the future if
required. Equally galleries could be enlarged or removed if necessary within
the confines of the external envelope.
This flexibility future-proofs the museum against likely changes to program
and functions in the long term.
ENVIRONMENTAL:
The gallery spaces within the Guggenheim will have an ‘all air’ air conditioning
system which will provide the required stable temperature and humidity
conditions for the artworks.
Direct solar loads have been excluded through deep shaded double facades
on elevation and tactical skylights through the roof plane to maximise natural
lighting where appropriate. The entire building is extremely well insulated
to minimise energy consumption and temper the large diurnal temperature
range in Helsinki.
The gallery air systems will be low velocity to minimise noise and will
incorporate heat recovery to reduce energy use. The district heating system
will be used for space heating in non-gallery spaces and to provide a
substantial proportion of the building’s hot water demands.
During the summer months, the building will open up and allow large areas of
the internal display spaces to be naturally ventilated through low level vents
through the façade. The open atrium space will act as an intermediate buffer
zone between the widely varying external climate and the very constant
environmental conditions within the galleries.
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FRONT STRUCTURE
CURTAIN WALL + CITY
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