A Temple for Hilma
Stockholm, Sweden

2016
A Temple for Hilma competition proposal

Temple should be a place of contemplation and calm. Each site like that leads a path, which announces the building itself, trying to prepare you for an entry. In some way, this path becomes the destination itself. In this case, the path's shape is an imitation of the shoreline. Thanks to that, it becomes a landscape experience that ends with a place of calm.

Abstractionism is featured by being out of touch with reality. Instead, simple geometrical forms construct purely spatial compositions. Hilma Af Klint was a precursor of this trend. Her works are primarily symmetrical geometric colorful compositions, searching for light and reflections.

All the arts should seek a familiar path – communicate with each other. Architecture and painting are telling a story together. The trail leads alongside the lot and then gets into the courtyard, which is entirely filled with water. The water surface reflects the simple geometric shapes form of the museum building.

The museum had been designed so that the form is as minimalistic as it gets – the architecture itself associates with the artist's work and does not interrupt the aspects of the landscape.

The building contains four segments separated from one another with glass connectors. Guest journeys through the artist's world – starting from the very beginning of her work. The journey continues through artistic maturity. Finally, the guest ends up in an undefined space – here are loosely deployed elements of her career – which helps understand the artist even more.