Connecting voids

A common thread joins verticaly Finlayson Palace with the former headquarters of the Factory and the Factory shop. Horizontally, through a visual axis links throught the Foyer, the high gallery and the partially open museum facilities, the Finlayson Church with the Spinning mill.

Concept

A common thread sews not only the cultural urban context but also the simbolic and historic context in which the following three threads come together, Sara Hilden's entrepeneurship career in textile design, Finlayson textile manufacture activities and one of the mediums used in art, the canvas. Materializing in a form like of loom.

Weaving experiences

The loom, referencing the past as an existential foothold for the present and future is the key in the exhibition program arrangement in an intermitent in-out weaving experience, interior exhibition spaces that are connected through open spaces that generate awareness in the visitor, about the place and landscape he is in. This in a form of cleansing the palate for the next exhibition space.

Passages and visuals

From Satakunnankatu street the visitor can directly walk into Wilhelm Von Nottbeck Park through an axis framed by two passages, the connection tends to link this opposites and reactivate with public the low usage courtyards.

A common thread that weaves it surrondings linking green environments, public squares and most importantly green space with urban.

Materiality

The project inserts carefully in a context with warm redish materials such as red brick and wooden buildings that have been structured by means of subtle facade ornamentation. With this in mind, the new art museum does not erodes the Genius loci of the contextual materiality, instead, adapts to it.