We imagine the Museum of History and the Future building in the City of Turku as a large room that can accommodate various planned, and unplanned, civic performances. Its openness favors a dialogue between outside and inside where the exterior becomes the content of the museum. Continue reading Adrian Phiffer
Our proposal tries to integrate all aspects of the site (the street, the arrival parking, the river, the forest) into one organization. The building is the main organiser on the site and acts as a link between these different parts. Deployed diagonally in four parts / bars, the building is carrying the visitors from the street all the way down to the North end of the site, close to the river and in the middle of the forested area. Continue reading Adrian Phiffer
This house is a simple concrete shell. Nothing more. Nothing less. The perimeter is pushed and pulled in various directions; it is punched through in multiple locations. Apparently, all this is done for the sake of conversation. It is about a conversation with a context: the mid-town urban fabric. This is a context with almost no qualities. Probably this is a misstatement. The landscape is magnificent. The architecture is banal, at moments, quite ugly. Engaged in the conversation, this house accepts, learns, and mimics the architectural language: simple openings, a cornice, a chimney, a water drainpipe; nothing out of norm. This house is a case of semblance. Continue reading Adrian Phiffer
