The master's thesis is based on a Finnish open competition called: Tampere Academy of Music Building Extension which is held in the winter 2013/2014. The purpose of the competition is to find a design for an extension to the music conservatory located in Pyynikin Square in Tampere and to compensate constant shortage of premises. The extension will solve the problem by adding various new teaching spaces, a new concert hall and the "black-box"theater. The building expansion will be designed to find a Pyynikin environment-friendly, architecturally high-qualified solution, in which the aesthetic, practicality, technical-economic and sustainable development objectives could be solved in a balanced way. The new premises together with the existing...