PRAUD recently shared with us their entry for the Extension of Serlachius Museum Gösta competition. The site has a strong advantage of having very fabulous landscape view towards lake as well as forest. Hence, the big idea in massing is to create view points towards those scenarios and it becomes an architectural logic of the form of the building. The first step they took was creating courtyard, just as typical museum typologies, as a void so that the museum has its vertical relationship to sky and outdoor exhibition space as well. Because of the massive surface they needed to deal with, they folded the mass into half so that it can be more efficient and compact building per se.
By folding it, there are cracks created and the last step is to cut out the overall mass in a relation to both cracks and the landscape scenery. In terms of siting, it sits right next to the existing Manor building so that it creates smooth circulation between new extension exhibition halls and existing exhibitions. The circulation plan starts from +107.0 level at the entry hall of new extension. From there, the level smoothly ramps up with three new exhibition halls; Traveling Exhibition 01, Traveling Exhibition 02 and Collection Exhibition.
