This creates 2 valleys that will define the Raadi Lake and the eastern pond with the main entrance and lobby centred between the two water bodies. This move limits the building height to no more than 18m at its highest with most parts no higher than 6m. The proposal hence appears more as a landform than a building as such. From the exterior the ENM seems to have been excavated from a hill; an effect further enhanced with the roof of the ENM being covered with grass. This landform absorbs the bigness of the ENM and preserves the intimate scale of Tartu.
The landform also consolidates all the historical buildings that are strewn across the competition site, turning them into an integrated curatorial route and a public leisure park. These historical buildings are incorporated as a network of exhibitions spaces or can be seen as follies in a landscape. There will thus be 2 curatorial routes.