Studio 06 | Summer 2024

Wentworth Institute of Technology School of Architecture and Design

Studio 06 | Summer 2024 Helsinski New Museum of Architecture and Design

Course Number: ARCH 3500 Lecture/Lab/Total Credits: 0/12/6 Class Schedule: M & Th 12:00-5:50

Professor: Ignacio Cardona

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Group #1: Arnold and Monahan.

Group #2: de Mesquita and Goldental.

Group #3: Jabbar, Edouard, and Ambroise.

Group #4: Gay, Belaunde, and Green.

Group #5: Bustamante, Pineda, and Belfin.

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Syllabus Summary The studio course will allow students to concentrate on the integrated design relationships between architecture and its systems of construction. Students will explore how architectural ideas are manifested and integrated into buildings through the various systems required for inhabitation and construction. Course materials and assignments will cover a broad range of topics; however, the focus will be on the detailed development of a work of architecture and its requisite systems. Students will draw upon knowledge gained throughout their various coursework and experiences to produce architecture that is realizable, sustainable, adaptable and intelligent design decisions. The performative qualities of the design response will reinforce the architectural ambitions for the work.performing in relationship to their surrounding world.

Design Process Phase 1: Context and Site Analysis

1.1 Context & Site Analysis 90% Complete

1.2 Site Model Planning Phase 2: Design Concept Charrette

2.1 Design Concept Charrette Phase 3: Precedent Study Phase 4: Design Concept Development & Design Prototype

4.1 Structural Prototype

4.2 Refined Structure & Enclosure Prototype

4.3. Refined Struct, Enclosure, & Envi. Controls Prototype

4.4 Initial Performance Analysis Phase 5: Integrated Design Development & Synthesis

5.1 Site and Building Concept Massing

5.2 Integrate and Synthesize Consultant Feedback

5.3 Lecture on Integrated Building Performance - Net Zero

5.4 Integrated Design Development

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Helsinki New Museum of Architecture and Design This Studio is based on the Competition Brief of the New Museum of Architecture and Design in Helsinki, Finland, published in April 2024.

The Brief outlines an international, two-stage architectural design competition for a landmark museum in Helsinki, Finland. The competition is organized by the Foundation for the Finnish Museum of Architecture and Design and Real Estate Company ADM, in collaboration with the City of Helsinki and the Finnish Association of Architects (SAFA). The goal is to create a world-class museum that will showcase Finnish and Nordic architecture and design while engaging with contemporary societal challenges.

The New Museum will be situated in Makasiiniranta, a waterfront district in Helsinki’s South Harbour, adjacent to the UNESCO-listed Suomenlinna Sea Fortress. The area is undergoing major redevelopment, transitioning from port operations to a public cultural district. The Brief explain that the New Museum must: respect the historical and urban fabric of Helsinki’s maritime waterfront, maintain visual connections to key landmarks (e.g., Helsinki Cathedral, Market Square), and ensure climate resilience and adhere to technical and financial constraints.

At the urban level, this Brief served as a basis that allowed students to develop a proposal in an urban context that has the challenge of integrating the traditional architecture of Helsinki with the new waterfront.

Programmatically, the challenge was based on integrating four types of users: (1) visitors to the New Museum, (2) visitors to the additional amenities offered by the proposed building, including community maker spaces and gastronomy centers, (3) visitors to the new waterfronteven when they do not enter the New Museum, and (4) administrative and service personnel who make possible the development of the activities of the three previous users.

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Connections to Connections An architecture museum in Finland with exposed structures, sustainable design, and immersive This new architecture museum in Finland fosters learning through diverse experiences, with visual connections between various environments encouraging exploration.

The building features exposed architectural elements and a glass facade for visibility inside and out. A mechanical facade adapts to weather, enhancing the museum’s sustainable design.

The site is integrated with its surroundings, connecting the park, city, and waterfront via a central atrium and thoughtful architectural features. Catering to all users, the museum is built with a sustainable post-and-beam heavy timber structure, glulam, and CLT composite flooring, emphasizing environmental responsibility while creating an inviting

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Folding the massing in response to site context encourag exploration in and around the building.

The building’s design integrates mass timber construction with its site, creating a dynamic interplay between the built construction and environment. Its form responds to site forces, guiding movement through and around the building while facilitating a seamless transition between land and water. The interior layout complements its detailed exterior, encouraging exploration inside and out. These spaces are illuminated with natural light that filters through the building’s wooden framework, creating a warm, inviting atmosphere that brings life to an often grey site.

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Helsinki Art and Architecture Museum Helsinki Art and Architecture Museum A Helsinki museum uniting art, architecture, and A Helsinki museum art, architecture, and sustainability with anuniting accessible serpintine bridge. sustainability with an accessible serpintine bridge.

The Museum, set on The Museum, setfeatures on Helsinki Harbor, Helsinki Harbor, features two cylindrical structures two cylindrical structures with a double-skin with a double-skin facade system, offering facade system, offering panoramic views. panoramic views.

An ADA-accessible An ADA-accessible serpentine bridge serpentinebetween bridge the interlaces interlaces between buildings, linking thethe buildings, city to the linking harbor the and city to the harbor to and providing access the providing access to rooftop amphitheaterthe rooftop amphitheater and second floor of the and second of the museum. Thefloor facade is museum.

The facade wrapped with twisted is wrappedlouvers with twisted wooden to wooden louvers optimize shading,tocomfort, optimize shading, comfort, and privacy.

Reflecting and privacy.

Reflecting Finland’s sustainability Finland’s sustainability values, the museum values, the museum uses recycled and locally uses recycled locally sourced wood,and solar sourced wood, solar panels, and a rainwater panels, and a rainwater collection system.

It collection system. houses workshops,It houses workshops, exhibits, a food court, exhibits,and a food court, offices, a watchtower. offices, and a watchtower.

At night, the facade lights At night, thecelebrating facade lights up in colors up in colors celebrating national holidays. national holidays.

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Connecting the greenery and history of Helsinki with a canop over a tree-like structural grid.

The building offers itself to the history of Helsinki, using copper to connect to the historical buildings that surround the site, as well as mimic the rolling hill that cascades down to the site. Tree-like structural members hold up the roof, showcasing the historical significance of using timber and trees in Finnish architecture.

This design also nods to the importance of the pronounced churches in the area, offering major hubs of tourism, where the steeples are grandiose and stand out above the rest of the Helsinki skyline; ours does too, housing the gallery spaces and protecting the exhibits.

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The Path The Path Helsinki’s museum with with an intended relationship to the Helsinki’s museum an intended relationship urban scale and high sustainability features. urban scale and high sustainability features.

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Aluminium Roof Roof Insulation Wood Plate Rafters Wood Roof Truss Flashing Rigid Insulation Glue-Lam Beam HVAC Duct Glass Louvers

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Instructor: Ignacio Cardona. Doctor of Design (Harvard, 2021), Urban Designer (Unimet, 2003), and Architect (USB, 1998), with 20+ years of teaching experience, he is currently Associate Professor at Wentworth Institute of Technology, and Director of the Spatial Opportunity Lab. He is also President of the Latin American Institute of Spatial Democracy.

Guest Critic: Christian Summer Roidt is an Architect at DiMella Shaffer. He holds a Masters in Architecture (WIT, 2019), and a Bachelor in Architecture (WIT, 2018).

At DiMella Shaffer he works in the Senior Living market and designs housing and community spaces for older adults. Christian has been an adjunct studio instructor at WIT since 2022.

Guest Critic: Jason McDonald is a Planner with the City of Boston Planning Department. Education includes Master of Architecture (Wentworth Institute of Technology, 2023), Bachelor of Science in Architecture (University of Hartford, 2021). Prior experience includes healthcare and lab facility design.

Guest Critic: Tosin Odugbemi is a visual brand strategist, founder of Atelier Oluwatosin, and Harvardeducated architect. Her work blends psychology, behavioral economics, marketing theory, and art history with a focus on social responsibility and ethics in luxury brand and spatial design.

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Guest Critic: Francisco Colom is a Design Director at MASS. He has practiced in Spain, the Netherlands, Azerbaijan, the UAE, and the USA. Francisco has taught design studios at Parsons and Tecnologico de Monterrey.

He holds a Master in Design Studies (Harvard, 2019) and a Bachelor and Master of Architecture (Alicante, 2014).

Guest Critic: Melissa Allen, AIA is an architect working on Payette since 2019 and has worked on several science projects. Some highlights include the interior of NE’s EXP, small-scale specialized facilities at Harvard Medical School, and the exterior envelope of Thomas Jefferson University’s Biomedical Research Building.

Guest Critic: Mark Mulligan is an architect and educator with a deep knowledge of construction technology and a multi-faceted engagement with Japanese architecture and urbanism. He holds a MArch (Harvard GSD), and BArch (Yale University). Mark is currently Associate Dean at the SoAD in Wentworth Institute of Technology Guest Critic: Cesare Cascella is a senior associate at Ground Inc. with over five years of professional experience designing culturally sensitive and functional urban landscapes. He holds a Master of Architecture from the University Federico II and a PhD in Urban Regeneration from University Mediterranea in Italy.

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Partnership Studio 06 | ARCH3500 Course Coordinators Professor Anthony Piermarini | piermarinia1@wit.edu Professor Troy Peters | peterst2@wit.edu Sections: 01 - Anthony Piermarini | piermarinia1@wit.edu 02 - Troy Peters | peterst2@wit.edu 03 - John Ellis | ellisj@wit.edu 04 - NJ Unaka | unakan@wit.edu 05 - Robert Trumbour | trumbourr@wit.edu 06 - Ignacio Cardona | cardonai@wit.edu 07 - Yasaman Esmaili | esmailiy@wit.edu 08 - Kim Poliquin | poliquink@wit.edu 09 - Alfonso Lopez | lopeza24@wit.edu SoAD Labs & Workshops Chris Sledziona | Director Rosemary Taylor | Lab Technician & Technical Instructor Joe Fratoni | Lab Technician & Technical Instructor External Consultants (Consultant Week: 6/24 – 6/28) Landscape: Adrian Fehrmann | Reed Hilderbrand MEP: Michaelson Joseph | ARUP Structure: Esteban Tenreiro | Norte Obras Civiles Envelope: Kyle Birchall | Island Exterior Fabricators Lighting: Michelle Tessier | HLB Lighting

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