.exploring katajanokan laituri during helsinki design week 2024 Katajanokan Laituri by Anttinen Oiva Architects is the most up to date instance of Finland’s new-generation and massive hardwood style, which designboom obtained a substantial trip of during the course of Helsinki Layout Week. The captivating property properties the head workplace of Finnish forestry provider Stora Enso, as well as the Boat dock 4 hotel with 164 areas, consisting of coffee shop and bistro resources open to the general public as well as workplace resources appropriate for a large variety of companies. This newest landmark, right now portion of Helsinki’s maritime sky line and historical Market Square, are going to also host the new Architecture and also Concept Museum and very soon come to be a hotspot for craft, style, and convenience.
‘ The region is actually going through a huge makeover, as the old slot functions are actually partially relocating away and also the shoreline gradually ready for pedestrians,’ discuss the designers. Katajanokan Laituri through Anttinen Oiva Architects|picture u00a9 Kalle Kouhia a new-generation wooden style through Anttinen Oiva Architects The group at Anttinen Oiva Architects made Katajanokan Laituri using mass hardwood elements. Straight from the beginning of the international invitational design competitors stage in 2020, the manager, insurer Varma, as well as the anchor resident, Stora Enso, highlighted their progressive ecological market values as well as temperature goals along with the objective of a lengthy lifespan, a versatile and adjustable building, as well as creating the very best use renewable resources and also components.
As our company visited the brand-new four-story spots, the engineers highlighted how they mixed Finnish and also Swedish hardwood and also utilized lead-in building as well as manufacturing methods along with standard and sustainable products, displaying new-generation lumber development in Finland. The visible structures consist of cross-laminated hardwood (CLT) as well as laminated veneer lumber (LVL), where nearly 2,500 wooden factors were actually made. In all, the structure is composed of around 7,600 cubic meters of timber.
An exclusive two-layer service was actually built for the facade: the external coating of glass, metal, as well as organic stone, along with a dominantly timber back coating. photo u00a9 Tuomas Uusheimo Photography ‘ A double skin was the most effective remedy given the architecturally as well as theoretically tough maritime context,’ Selina Anttinen notes.’ […] The property’s appeal enhances in various times of the day and also lights conditions and also fits the a variety of scales and also themes of the neighboring properties from the different historic periods.’ Inside the building, timber controls as well, oozing the exact same solid sense of Nordic attributes. At the facility of it, an eye-catching hall along with an around, cascading skylight personifies the construction with a rounded, wooden bench meanwhile, a new birch grove welcomes guests in the narrow internal courtyard.
The Katajanokka Pier is actually developed with the following 100 years in thoughts. Because of its place by the sea, Katajanokan Laituri likewise performs as a flooding barrier.touring Katajanokan Laituri|image u00a9 designbooma core window|graphic u00a9 Kalle Kouhiaimage u00a9 Kalle Kouhiapairing cross-laminated hardwood (CLT) and laminated veneer lumber (LVL)|graphic u00a9 Kalle Kouhia.