Guggenheim Museum

Designed for the Guggenheim Museum Helsinki architectural competition, the proposal explores the idea of the museum as an architecture of image rather than object. The project conceives the museum as an image-based architecture, where the artwork—and the act of seeing—becomes the primary generator of form. All functions are contained within a semi-transparent glass volume floating above a public deck, forming an “aquarium.” Its expressive power does not rely on sculptural form, but on the movement of images, light, and reflections drifting within the space. Inside this empty volume, gallery boxes are suspended like colored fragments, creating a dynamic visual field. Distorted double-skin glass façades blur interior and exterior views, transforming the city and sea into shifting, painterly images. In this way, the museum becomes a reflection of its own image—oscillating between reality and imagination.