.visiting katajanokan laituri during helsinki design week 2024 Katajanokan Laituri by Anttinen Oiva Architects is actually the current instance of Finland’s new-generation and also large-scale lumber design, which designboom acquired an extensive scenic tour of during Helsinki Layout Week. The stunning building houses the scalp workplace of Finnish forestation business Stora Enso, and also the Pier 4 hotels and resort along with 164 areas, consisting of coffee shop and restaurant locations open to the general public and workplace locations suitable for a large range of organizations. This newest landmark, currently aspect of Helsinki’s maritime horizon as well as historic Market Square, will definitely also organize the brand new Design as well as Design Museum and soon come to be a hotspot for fine art, concept, and also leisure.
‘ The place is going through a huge change, as the aged port functions are to some extent moving away as well as the shoreline slowly open up to passerbies,’ discuss the architects. Katajanokan Laituri through Anttinen Oiva Architects|graphic u00a9 Kalle Kouhia a new-generation wooden concept by Anttinen Oiva Architects The group at Anttinen Oiva Architects designed Katajanokan Laituri making use of mass timber components. Right from the start of the worldwide invitational architecture competitors period in 2020, the owner, insurance company Varma, and the anchor lessee, Stora Enso, highlighted their dynamic environmental market values and temperature targets with the goal of a lengthy lifespan, a pliable and also adjustable structure, and also helping make the most effective use renewable resources and also materials.
As we toured the brand-new four-story landmark, the architects highlighted just how they blended Finnish and Swedish hardwood as well as utilized pioneering building and also manufacturing strategies with traditional and sustainable materials, exemplifying new-generation wood construction in Finland. The visible buildings make up cross-laminated lumber (CLT) as well as laminated veneer lumber (LVL), from which nearly 2,500 timber elements were actually produced. In all, the property includes around 7,600 cubic gauges of wood.
An unique two-layer remedy was created for the facade: the external layer of glass, metallic, and also all-natural rock, with a dominantly timber back coating. graphic u00a9 Tuomas Uusheimo Photography ‘ A dual skin layer was the most ideal service given the architecturally and actually difficult maritime situation,’ Selina Anttinen notes.’ […] The structure’s look changes in various times of the time and also illumination conditions and also matches the a variety of ranges and concepts of the surrounding buildings from the different historical periods.’ Inside the structure, lumber controls also, oozing the exact same sturdy sense of Nordic attributes. At the facility of it, a stunning hall with a sphere, pouring skylight personifies the architecture along with a rounded, wooden bench in the meantime, a new birch stand welcomes site visitors in the narrow interior yard.
The Katajanokka Pier is actually constructed with the following one hundred years in mind. With the help of its own area by the sea, Katajanokan Laituri likewise operates as a flood barrier.touring Katajanokan Laituri|photo u00a9 designbooma main skylight|photo u00a9 Kalle Kouhiaimage u00a9 Kalle Kouhiapairing cross-laminated lumber (CLT) as well as laminated laminate lumber (LVL)|picture u00a9 Kalle Kouhia.