• Our favourite (own) facade drawing ever.

  • model-master Klaus Stolt & Samuli 2004

  • Stolt's CNC machine, Janne & Antti 10/2004

  • CNC-milled massive aluminium

  • Free form emerges.

  • model in progress

  • making of the entry; in Antti's studio apartment 7/2004

  • working models

  • making of the entry: screenshot

  • one of our favorite competitors

  • other entries in 2nd phase

  • 4 boys on the way to the prize ceremony 11/2004

  • competition winner realized 2008, architect Ilmari Lahdelma - www.arklm.fi

  • competition winner Lahdelma on the way back from prize ceremony

Kotka Museum Center

The exhibition spaces are laid in the middle of the building while supporting functions are zoned around them. Varying exhibition space heights are executed optimally after which the resulted mass is "vacoom-wrapped" into a metal skin.

Name: Kotka Museum Center

Type: Competition 2004, Honorable Mention

Status: Concluded

Program: 17.000m2 Museum Spaces for the Finnish Maritime Museum and the Kymenlaakso Local Museum

Location: Kotka, Finland

Client: National Board of Antiquities, City of Kotka

Team: Juho Grönholm, Antti Nousjoki, Janne Teräsvirta, Samuli Woolston

Collaborators: Klaus Stolt (scale model)

Rendered (3 images)
Model photos (2 images)