Renderings: © Moka Design
Sara Hildén Art Museum, Tampere
Wettbewerb
Internationaler offener Wettbewerb 2020/21
Architekt
Jan Hübener Architekt
Bauherr
City of Tampere
BGF
6.995 m²
Transformer
A Public Place
The objective of the project is to create an inviting and open museum, a building which evokes curiosity and a public place which becomes an integral part of the city.
Urban Concept
The design builds on the great potential of the site by transforming the former parking area into a public open space between the historic landmark buildings of Finlayson Palace, the Finlayson headquarters, the Spinning Mill, and the new Sara Hildén Museum.
Situated at the crossroads of important pedestrian and cycling connections the square marks the intersection between the dense urban fabric of the Finlayson area and the open landscape of Wilhelm von Nottbeck Park and Näsinpuisto Park. The area south of Finlaysoninkatu Street will be turned into a second, more intimate square in front of the Finlayson shop. The street will be organized as a shared space connecting the two squares into a continuous urban space. The Museum square can also serve as an outdoor exhibition space for sculptures.
The museum is organized as a compact 5-storey building on the western part of the former parking north of Finlaysoninkatu Street. The basement also uses the area underneath the square.
Along Palatsinaritti street there are two small pavilions containing the entrance to the underground parking and a fire exit for the museum basement.
The new Sara Hildén Art Museum
The main entrance to the museum is from the public square on the east side.
The foyer extends the public space of the Museum square into the building. The programme is organised along the facades allowing interactions between inside and outside: The café can use the corner between the square and Finlaysoninkatu Street as outdoor area. Activities in the pedagogical workshop are visible from the street. The multi-functional space opens onto the park which can be used for events. These spaces can be connected to the foyer via folding walls to create one continuous open space.
The foyer expands into the basement where the cloak room and the main restrooms are situated.
Access to the exhibition spaces on the upper floors is in the north-east corner of the ground floor. A generous staircase stretching over the length of the east facade extends the public space vertically, giving ever changing views of the cityscape as the visitors move from one floor to another. While the other facades are mainly closed the east façade is glazed so that here the circulation space and the flow of the visitors become the actual elevation.
The staircase and the two glazed elevators extend all the way to the roof level giving access to a roof terrace with views to lake Näsijärvi and the city of Tampere.
The Galleries
The exhibition spaces organised on 4 levels. They can be used or closed off for installation independently from each other. The clear heights vary between 4.70m and 7.45m. There are no internal loadbearing walls so that the layout of the galleries can be freely chosen and adjusted to changing requirements or concepts. A structural concrete grid of 2.10m x 2.10m with cast-in channels allows for different configurations of partition walls or displays. The outer walls of the exhibition spaces are closed apart from sections in the west façade which can be opened for the hauling of exceptionally large exhibits.
All gallery spaces are lit by light ceilings using adaptable LED lighting. In addition, light rails can be mounted to the cast-in channels. The gallery space on the 4th floor can also be lit by natural light via skylights.
Museum Infrastructure
The loading space is situated at the back of the ground floor. It can be accessed by a truck-trailer-combination by reversing from Finlaysoninkatu Street. Both the truck and the trailer fit inside the loading space and can be unloaded from the back or the side.
Given its prominent location the loading space could also be used as temporary event space or as civil defence space.
A freight elevator connects the loading space directly with the galleries and the packing and settling room in the basement.
All spaces are fitted with mechanical ventilation and air conditioning
Basement
The museum workshops and the social facilities are organized around a sunken courtyard cut into the Museum square. Storage and technical spaces are situated in other parts of the basement.
Evacuation Concept
In the event of a fire the main staircase can be closed off from the foyer by fire curtains to create an enclosed escape route. Additionally, there are two separate escape routes in the emergency staircase in the south-east corner which is organized as a double staircase.
Material Concept
The facades of the museum are designed as corten steel cladding. This allows for very precise and abstract geometries which emphasize the building as being thoroughly contemporary while its red and brown shades blend in well with the context of the existing brick buildings. Inside the walls of the foyer and the main staircase are fair-faced concrete while those in the galleries are rendered.
Interior floors are planned as terrazzo, the exterior spaces will be paved with granite.
Trees
To the north the building is set back from the competition boundary to allow for sufficient space for the existing trees in the park. In order to make good use of the limited site, a number of trees cannot remain in their place. Trees of special significance will be transplanted to the small square south of Finlaysoninkatu Street.