.travelling katajanokan laituri during helsinki design full week 2024 Katajanokan Laituri through Anttinen Oiva Architects is actually the current example of Finland’s new-generation and massive hardwood architecture, which designboom got a considerable tour of during the course of Helsinki Design Week. The stunning structure houses the head office of Finnish forestry business Stora Enso, and also the Pier 4 hotel along with 164 areas, including coffee shop and dining establishment resources open to the public as well as workplace centers suited for a large range of businesses. This most up-to-date landmark, currently part of Helsinki’s maritime horizon and also historical Market Square, will certainly likewise organize the new Architecture and Concept Gallery and very soon come to be a hotspot for art, style, and also convenience.
‘ The place is actually undergoing a large makeover, as the aged port functionalities are partially moving away and also the shoreline steadily available to pedestrians,’ discuss the engineers. Katajanokan Laituri by Anttinen Oiva Architects|picture u00a9 Kalle Kouhia a new-generation wood concept through Anttinen Oiva Architects The crew at Anttinen Oiva Architects developed Katajanokan Laituri making use of mass wood aspects. Straight from the start of the international invitational construction competition period in 2020, the owner, insurance provider Varma, as well as the support lessee, Stora Enso, highlighted their modern ecological values and temperature objectives with the goal of a lengthy life expectancy, a flexible and also adaptable property, as well as helping make the most effective use renewable resources and also components.
As our experts visited the brand new four-story spots, the engineers highlighted how they incorporated Finnish and also Swedish timber as well as utilized lead-in home as well as manufacturing techniques along with standard and maintainable materials, displaying new-generation lumber building and construction in Finland. The visible structures consist of cross-laminated wood (CLT) and also laminated laminate lumber (LVL), from which practically 2,500 wood components were helped make. In all, the building is composed of about 7,600 cubic meters of timber.
A special two-layer option was built for the front: the exterior coating of glass, metal, as well as organic rock, along with a dominantly wooden back coating. photo u00a9 Tuomas Uusheimo Digital Photography ‘ A double skin was the greatest answer given the architecturally and also actually demanding maritime situation,’ Selina Anttinen keep in minds.’ […] The property’s appeal transforms in various opportunities of the day as well as illumination states and also accommodates the various ranges and motifs of the neighboring buildings from the different historical periods.’ Inside the building, wood dominates as well, oozing the exact same strong sense of Nordic nature. At the center of it, a distinctive hall along with an around, cascading skylight expresses the design with a round, wooden seat at the same time, a clean birch grove greets site visitors in the slim inner yard.
The Katajanokka Pier is constructed along with the following 100 years in mind. Because of its place by the ocean, Katajanokan Laituri also operates as a flooding barrier.touring Katajanokan Laituri|picture u00a9 designbooma main skylight|photo u00a9 Kalle Kouhiaimage u00a9 Kalle Kouhiapairing cross-laminated wood (CLT) and laminated laminate lumber (LVL)|graphic u00a9 Kalle Kouhia.