In recent decades museum buildings have become the site of significant and progressive architectural innovations. This proposal, continuing in this tradition, was a highly experimental proposal for the new 129,000 sq. ft. Guggenheim Museum, to be located on the urban waterfront in Helsinki, Finland. The design was used as a research project that was exclusively constructed from "recycled digital materials", which were simply randomly downloaded 3D models of objects. Through the high-resolution recombining, or "kit-bashing" of components, the individual figures were intended to lose their original symbolism in favor of the emergence of a new form of architectural aesthetic that mysteriously hints at, but in no way reveals, the curious and varied importance of the artistic contents within.
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