Art and Technology. The Guggenheim Museum Helsinki

The plan appears to be as the rest of a pietrified fossil forest. Individual elements, like gigantic tree-trunks carved and excavated, are put together to form a unitary whole around common distribution spaces. The new museum is inserted in an available building plot through a planimetric multicellular structure that refers to the major sights of the city. All exhibition areas, event rooms, shops with the ramp that arrives to upper levels, are displayed around common areas similar to covered "urban squares". These, are crossed by vertical passages wich gather up the context and build a careful game of visual interesections between the inside and the outside. The cover's building is in a slight excavation to concentric circular pattern that recalls the internal veins of tree-trunk. It is covered to put up the garden sculpture and is oriented toward the topical points of the city.