Alvar Aalto Time Lapse, Finnish Concept Design, Contemporary Jyväskylä Building Images
Alvar Aalto Time Lapse in Jyvaskyla
Concept Architecture Finland – design by Matteo Cainer Architects
7 Nov 2017
Alvar Aalto Time Lapse, Jyväskylä
Design: Matteo Cainer Architects
Location: Jyvaskyla, Finland
Alvar Aalto Time Lapse

Creating the Alvar Aalto Museum of Central Finland

The international competition to link the Alvar Aalto Museum with the Museum of Central Finland presented a unique opportunity to rethink both museums and explore Alvar Aalto?s architectural legacy. Through a refined abstraction of his work, a new architectural language harmoniously blurs the boundaries between old and new, establishing a dynamic ?ensemble? that not only highlights the museum?s collections, but also creates a sense of unity and roots the museum in the site.
The buildings, designed ten years apart by Aalto, represent his ?white period? and illustrate the evolution of his work, from the geometric utility of early functionalism to the looser forms of his later years. Upon reviewing the brief, we realised that each museum had organisational and spatial shortcomings, with a lack of storage and conservation space, and gallery and circulation spaces that did not satisfactorily display their respective collections. As a result, the project was not only conceived as a connecting gateway between the museums, as requested by the brief, but more as a new architectural ?junction? that connects...