☉ Sara Hildén Art Museum is a proposal by Studio812 for City of Tampere and Sara Hilden Foundation in 2021. It is located in Tampere Finland in a park and old town setting. Its scale is medium with a surface of 6.050 sqm. Key materials are concrete and metal. Creaviz collaborated as visualizer. Review the 10 proposals for the same competition.
The new museum building occupies the northern part of the competition site, north of Finlaysoninkatu street and facing with its principal facade the former headquarters of the factory building. The proposal tries to minimize the impact of massive exhibition volume and leave as much as possible free space around itself. The new proposed building is located parallel between the existing historic and industrial heritage volumes, occupying the most logical perimeter within the existing urban tissue and in this sense completing the existing block in the city pattern. The second long facade faces entirely the existing urban park, protecting it from the street and at the same time allows the new visitors flow to penetrate the new volume on the ground floor, creating a new physical connection with the park, as well as visual connection thanks to the big glazed openings within the massive block of the exhibition volume