Museum of future Building, Finland, Museum of Architecture and Design architect, Helsinki architectural contest
Museum of future Building Helsinki Design Competition
17 September 2025
Design: Atelier Architettura Chinello Morandi
Renders: AACM
Fishing Net Museum of future Building, Design Competition
Rooted in the scent of salt, the AD Museum titled Fishing Net is born from a simple gesture of memory: the harbour as a living archive. Its form grows from sails, market awnings and nets cast at dawn; rather than imposing a foreign monument on Helsinki’s South Harbour, the museum folds into the city’s seam, preserving views, the human scale of Market Square and the textures of the shore.
From afar it reads as a glowing lantern, an urban beacon; up close it becomes a net: a porous, embracing skin that filters light, frames movement and invites gathering. This duality of lantern and net, shelter and stage, shapes the whole: a living membrane that is soft and translucent by day,
warm and luminous by night, mediating between interior and exterior.
At the core lies the Agorà, a covered, piazza-like heart where indoor and outdoor dissolve. Cobblestones continue in from the quay, timber and stone converse with the breeze, and the space becomes a civic stage for chance encounters, bookshop talks, quiet performances and café life. It is civic space first.
Three intersecting gallery monoliths rise like bastions, heavy and grounded yet punctured by framed views and terraces that return the gaze to the city. Inspired by coastal cliffs and fortifications, their weight signals refuge and endurance; circulation through stairways and suspended walkways choreographs a gradual unwrapping that culminates on a rooftop public room, where the skin yields to the sky and Helsinki is seen whole.
Sustainability and resilience are woven into the concept :the building’s thermal inertia that moderates climate, resource-aware strategies and a green oasis, yet always in service of the atmosphere. The museum’s lasting sustainability is social: it invites repeated return and new civic life.
“Fishing Net” is therefore both an idea and an instrument: a building that remembers the harbour and adds a new layer of activity to it: an observatory of the city, a shelter for culture and a filter through which the rhythms of Helsinki can be seen, heard and shared.
Italian:
Radicato nel profumo di salsedine, il Museo AD intitolato “Fishing Net” nasce da un semplice gesto di memoria: il porto come archivio vivente. La sua forma si genera dalle vele, dai tendoni del mercato e dalle reti gettate all’alba; invece di imporsi come un monumento estraneo sulla South Harbour di Helsinki, il museo si inserisce nella trama della città, preservando le vedute, la scala umana del Market Square e le matericità del litorale.
Da lontano appare come una lanterna luminosa, un faro urbano; da vicino diventa una rete: una pelle porosa e accogliente che filtra la luce, incornicia i movimenti e invita all’incontro. Questa duplicità di lanterna e rete, rifugio e palcoscenico, plasma l’intero edificio: una membrana viva, morbida e traslucida di giorno, calda e radiosa di notte, capace di mediare tra interno ed esterno. Al centro si apre l’Agorà, un cuore coperto, simile a una piazza, dove i confini tra dentro e fuori si dissolvono. I percorsi continuano dal molo, il legno e la pietra conversano con la brezza, e lo spazio diventa un palcoscenico civico per incontri casuali, conversazioni in libreria, piccole performance e vita da caffè. È prima di tutto uno spazio civico.
Tre monoliti espositivi si innalzano come bastioni, pesanti e ancorati a terra ma traforati da vedute e terrazze che restituiscono lo sguardo alla città. Ispirati alle scogliere costiere e alle fortificazioni, il loro peso evoca rifugio e resistenza; il percorso, tra scale e passerelle sospese, mette in scena un graduale svolgersi che culmina in una sala pubblica sul tetto, dove la pelle si apre al cielo e Helsinki si rivela nella sua interezza.
Sostenibilità e resilienza sono parte integrante del progetto: l’inerzia termica dell’edificio modera il clima, strategie attente alle risorse e un’oasi verde, completano il sistema, sempre però al servizio dell’atmosfera. La sostenibilità più duratura del museo è quella sociale: invita a tornare, a ritrovare nuova vita civica.
“Fishing Net” è dunque insieme un’idea e uno strumento: un edificio che custodisce la memoria del porto e vi aggiunge un nuovo strato di attività; un osservatorio sulla città, un rifugio per la cultura e un filtro attraverso il quale i ritmi di Helsinki possono essere visti, ascoltati e condivisi.
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Museum of future Building, Design Competition in Helsinki
“Fishing Net”
Helsinki, Finlandia
2024
Typology: Public, museum
Area: 10.400 m2
Architecture: AACM – Atelier Architettura Chinello Morandi
Arch. Ing. Rodolfo Morandi
Project team: Arch. Francesco Deiro
Dott. Mattia Penati
Dott. Niccolò Caratelli
Dott. Mattia Ghiraldo
Dott. Chiara Menegazzi
Dott. Lorena Tais Pasinato
Texts: AACM
Images: AACM
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