Museums have always been as concerned with prediction as with preservation. They perpetually act as arenas in which the thought about how our bodies relate to space and time overlaps the remembrance of the past. However, the more dynamics the present becomes the stronger grows the urge to address the issue of how we project into the future. There have always been robust initiatives to precisely predict the future, but do we actually any longer want to know it?! We can certainly say that there will be a multiplicity of realities and we strongly believe that a museum of history and the future will ultimately depend on its capacity to address these particular senses.
| LOCATION | Turku, Finland |
| YEAR | 2024 |
| CLIENT | Turku Municipality |
| STATUS | Competition |
| PROGRAM | Museum |
| PROJECT ARCHITECT | Julian Beqiri |
Museums can be allies and collaborators with those who are campaigning for change and the imminent emerging impact of the climate crisis calls for architecture that remains at the forefront of an environmentally growing concern. As the stock of newly built architecture piles up every day the only remedial possibility seems to reside in the field of landscape architecture rather than in architecture or urban design. The new museum of history and the future is seen as a return to authenticity while organically connected to and with the city in which it is in. Two tectonic plates emerging from the ground confront each other in opposite directions by creating a sharp visual cone overlooking the Turku Castle Church. The presence of the church as an undisputable landmark runs through the whole concept narrative taking sides on the debate if the new architecture should indeed be competitive.
