Trees, a grassy mantle, a lake and a small island welcome the visitor before the building of the Serlachius Museum. The morphology of this territory is the general module of our intervention development, the expositive and functional demands, and the suggestion of the Serlachius museum helped us find/fix the principal generators of our intervention.

Topography as a formal matrix. The aim our project is to create a building integrated in the landscape, and generated by the nature. The contour lines model this territory, they draw natural paths that, as an important landmark, led us in the creative trial. The building unfolds between the contour lines; it forms grassy ramps as new lawns, it develops in the mean of the trees and it uses the gradient created as an opportunity of point of view.

Ancient axis. Another important landmark is the axis Manor’s building-ancient bridge in the southeastern part, the link to the island, to the sauna, a trace in the contour lines net. The project emphasizes this mark, using it in a twice way, as a quick and linear path, that intersects the principal sinuous building, and as a crossing of the lake to island

Natural and circular paths. The idea of a path is the concept of the project. A path that follows the lines of landscape and that drives the visitor into the exhibition and into the nature. It begins in the northwestern part in the square in front of the Manor’s building, it goes to the foyer, and it ends again in the foyer, developing in the ground. This is an internal path, which can be external in the green ramps on the roof of the building. Another natural and circular path is connected to this an external path, from the restaurant on the lake in the southeastern part it drives on the island to the new sauna building,and with another new carriage bridge to northern part of the water front, and finally again to the principal building.

Origami shape. The building like a big paper origami lays on the hill, as a tribute to one of the most important products related to the history of the Serlachius company and the Fine Arts, the paper. Moreover the origami triangles are able to fit effectively to the landscape, they create an organic shape camouflaging with the environment, becoming a part of the landscape.