This proposal for the Serlachius Museum Extension in Mänttä, Finland was submitted by XML. The omnipresent landscape provoked the architects to develop a scheme that became a median between the external world of nature and the internal world of art. More information and images on this project after the break.
The required program has been distributed along a continuous route that connects different programmatic clusters such as galleries, storage, restaurant and office. The circulation between these clusters is bent into a circle allowing for two experiential conditions: on the inside of the circle a series of enclosed exhibition spaces allows visitors to focus on the experience of art whereas on the outside of the circle the continuous route that connects the programmatic clusters allows for alternating these intimate experiences with views on the surrounding nature.
