Due to the challenging rocky location and adaptability requirements none of the competition entries fulfilled all the jury's demands and the first prize was not awarded: the second prize was shared by the architect couple Reima and Raili Pietilä and Osmo Lappo, who were asked to further develop their proposals.

[4][3][5] In 1993 the building was transformed into a training centre for the university due to high maintenance costs.

Reima Pietilä himself said of the building: "As in Samuel Beckett's novels, there are no exposed trenchmarks of balance.

(...) after the hill top was blasted the broken heaps of rock gave an initial image which one could follow with the slow, crawling motion of structure.

The reptilian metaphoric image: the silhouetted dinosaur accentuating the rhythmic consistency of retardation.