A place to sit and think, on an island museum where old Finnish log houses go when they are moved.
The museum collects historical log buildings from all over Finland and relocates them onto one island, so the whole log-building tradition sits side by side in one place. The task was to design somewhere for visitors to rest and contemplate among them.
I wanted the shelter to belong to that company of buildings without pretending to be one of them, so it uses traditional log construction and traditional joints, and then does something the old houses do not: a butterfly roof that collects and carries greenery, draining inward instead of shedding out.
Helsinki University of Technology, Wood Program · pencil and coloured pencil on paper · 2008