Tampere Art Museum and Pyynikintori Square | Carlo Rivi

Finalist Project "CALAMARI UNION"

with Dora Pugliese

The new Tampere Art Museum competition is based on an organic and complex intention, a vision of urban reorganization of a wide area where the new museum building will have to relate itself with the various surrounding spaces as Pyynikintori square, Pirkankatu street, Puutarhakatu street and heterogeneous urban elements as the existing art museum, the separate building, the Amuri Museum and the housing/retail/office development.
HOUSING RETAIL OFFICE DEVELOPMENT
We have planned to locate the main requested quantity of the new development along Pirkankatu street in the Heinätori area. A long building will define the border of Pirkankatu street with commercial spaces in the ground floor and a narrow elongated square in the south part. The new Heinätori square will face the old historical buildings. Near Pyynikintori square a tower rises up entering in relation with the scale of the wide urban void. The tower will work as recognizable landmark, as visibile pivot of the urban surrounding system.
Other two smaller blocks are planned to be placed along Makasiininkatu street and Puutarhakatu street. The first one is a sort of closing scene, a backdrop of the urban sequence wich starts from Pyynikintori square till the uncostructed plot. The other one along Puutarhakatu street will complete the plot along its perimeter.
PYYNIKINTORI SQUARE
The new square will be organized in three main areas. The bus terminal in the north part with a new pavillion like building that will work as services for the terminal, for the underground parking and for the square.
In the middle part of the square is planned a multi purpose area for various events, here we decided to keep the original stone pavement and the old tall lamp as recognition elements.
In the south part is placed a fenced playground for children. It will be a small green hill surrounded by trees.
On the west side of the square a double trees line will define a walking path that will cross the three areas from north to the south ending at the lyceum and conservatory front space.
NEW MUSEUM
The building floor shape is based on two different alignments, one is the the axis coming from the building fronts of the east side of Pyynikintori square and the other is the orientation of the historical urban grid.
The dynamic space that the two alignments generate, between the new and the existing museum, works as urban connection of the sequence: Pyynikintori square/New Museum/Old Museum/Separate building/Amuri Museum.
The new Museum has a vertical function layout. The ground floor: entrance foyer, museum shop, coffe station and offices; first floor: exhibition spaces, meeting facilities; second floor: main exhibition hall.
In the underground floor are placed all the service functions and an exhibition space that will connect the new building with the old museum.
The main exhibition hall is characterized by a high pitched roof that will generate different heights of the space and will bring natural light inside through a controlled regulation system of skylights.
In the ground floor the entrance foyer will face the old museum through a wide open window wall and will face an outdoor sculpture garden. A double high space will bring natural light in the exhibition/conncetion space below.
In the old museum building will be located the collection exhibition facilities and in the separate building will be located the research library.
The construction of the building is planned to be mainly in reinforced concrete for the vertical elements and the floor slabs and in steel for the roof. Outside the coating of the building (roof and walls) will be in titanium zinc.