Tuomas Siitonen

SIC

Tuomas — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 14:11:34 +0000

SIC is one of the newest art spaces in the Helsinki gallery scene. Located in a former harbour warehouse L3 in Jätkäsaari, SIC is an artist-run gallery with an ambitious profile. We helped the artists of SIC by designing the gallery space. The budget was small and lots of details were improvised during the building, but the concept – a space within space, sort of a jacket turned inside-out is there. To reach the gallery you walk through the harbour area in construction, enter a quite worn-out old warehouse building, climb up some floors, go through a suspicious looking door and enter a damp attic-like hall where you suddenly encounter this white, almost abstract space and the art it contains.
http://www.sicspace.net

Photo: Maija Luutonen, exhibition by Maija Luutonen
maijaluutonen.com

Kari

Tuomas — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 13:05:45 +0000

Kari Suomalainen was the most well-known Finnish caricaturist from the 1950s until 1990s, drawing for the biggest daily, Helsingin Sanomat. He covered politicians and made fun of institutions, but also observed the changes in society at a time when people were moving from the countryside to cities and the traditional family structure began to diversify. We wanted to pay homage to Kari´s black-and-white ink technique and the greyness of the era through the exhibition architecture and tried to include just a tiny bit of wry humour in it.

Team: Tuomas Siitonen, Johannes Nieminen
Location: Päivälehden museo, Helsinki
Client: Päivälehden museo

House M-M

Tuomas — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 10:57:30 +0000

House M-M is a private house of 170 m2 in Helsinki, Finland. It is designed for a family of four, with a separate flat for a grandgrandmother. Also the grandparents live in an existing building on the same plot. The guiding concept in the design was the relationship of private spaces within the houses to the shared garden and gradual shift from shared to the more private. Sustainability was another key principle. The building and the surroundings will be finalized in the spring of 2013.

Helkama headquarters

Tuomas — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 09:39:52 +0000

Car importer and distributor Helkama-Auto needed to update their headquarters, build in the 1980s. We decided use an interventionist strategy by means of a continous theme of acoustic panels and furniture elements. The update included the design of new entrance area, meeting rooms and cafeteria. The same pattern continues in the training spaces, where mechanics are trained. Interesting detail in the work was to avoid too clear referencing to any single car brand through use of colour.

Client: Helkama-Kiinteistöt Oy
Team: Tuomas Siitonen, Katriina Lankinen, Mari Sollman
Photos: Mikael Lindén

Plan Bothnia

Tuomas — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 14:27:25 +0000

A map and book project for Boverket. Done together with Johannes Nieminen.

Visualizing Knowledge

Tuomas — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 14:14:15 +0000

Tuomas was speaking in Visualizing Knowledge -seminar, presenting two recent projects with a focus on delivering information through experience in space (exhibition for Ilmastoinfo) and time (Plan Bothnia book project).
www.tietonakyvaksi.fi

Roslund

Tuomas — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 14:12:10 +0000

Another recent project was for Roslund in the Teurastamo district of Helsinki. The job was to convert a tiny former watchman´s building into a meatshop/bistro. More images soon.

Spring & summer 2012!

Tuomas — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 19:45:13 +0000

Hello! We are quite slow in updating this site and bit more active in Twitter (@tsiit) but here is a little summary of what has been happening at Tuomas Siitonen Oy in the first half of 2012: we were working on quite many interior projects, including a new lobby, cafeteria and education spaces for Helkama Corporation; bookshop project for Sanoma Corporation; meeting rooms for ad agency 358; butcher shop for Roslund meats and a gallery space for SIC. Besides these we were working on communication / graphic design projects for the City of Helsinki and Boverket. On the architecture side we are happy to see a private house we have worked on for over a year being built at the moment and being finished early next year!

We have also been teaching and giving occasional lectures; been doing some writing, including an essay for Helsinki Beyond Dreams and worked on some competitions. If you are in Finland in the summer of 2012 you can see our work in two exhibitions, Finnish Architecture 2010/2011 at the Museum of Finnish Architecture (Kalasatama Temporary) and at the Mänttä Art Fair (Bixi). Have a nice summer and please stay updated via Twitter.

New: exhibition design for Ilmastoinfo

Tuomas — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 15:21:49 +0000

We have been working on an exhibition concept and exhibition architecture for an upcoming exhibition for Ilmastoinfo in Laituri exhibition space. The idea is to visualize the effects of different lifestyle choices and their impact on the environment. Hoping it is coming out good, opening on the 12th of October. More info here. The project was done in collaboration with Minsu Kuusisto, who is responsible for Ilmastoinfo´s graphic identity and Johannes Nieminen, who designed a nice tabloid paper for the exhibition.

Process pics

Tuomas — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 18:20:37 +0000

Here is what we were working on today, got so excited that I posted a pic right away, it is not quite finished in the picture, but this is the third annual paper installation for Helsingin Sanomat Foundation, done together with Johannes Nieminen and Pauli Ojala, who has designed an amazing projection piece to complement the papaer installation. See also previous installations done for HSS.