What's Finnish for 'hot sacks'?*
This project is all about reinventing the abandoned and deteriorating wood processing plant designed by Alvar Aalto in order for it to become a critique of its current environment.
*It's 'kuuma säkit'
The Aalto Sanctuary
Final design proposal
Site plan
Section I
Understanding the contraction and expansion of the internal mechanism through different temperature zones.
Exploded Axonometric
3D iteration
Laser cut watercolour paper and perspex
800 x 450
Flexibility manipulation
The expanding and contracting extremes of the internal volumes derived from the manipulation of the material's flexibility.
Worm's eye view
