.touring katajanokan laituri during helsinki design full week 2024 Katajanokan Laituri by Anttinen Oiva Architects is the most recent example of Finland’s new-generation and large-scale timber design, which designboom acquired an extensive excursion of throughout Helsinki Concept Week. The eye-catching structure residences the scalp workplace of Finnish forestry business Stora Enso, along with the Pier 4 accommodation with 164 rooms, featuring cafu00e9 and bistro centers open up to the general public and also office resources appropriate for a variety of services. This latest landmark, right now aspect of Helsinki’s maritime horizon and also historic Market Square, will definitely likewise hold the brand new Architecture and Design Gallery and soon end up being a hotspot for fine art, layout, and also convenience.
‘ The area is experiencing an enormous makeover, as the outdated slot functionalities are actually to some extent relocating away and also the shoreline progressively available to passerbies,’ discuss the designers. Katajanokan Laituri by Anttinen Oiva Architects|image u00a9 Kalle Kouhia a new-generation wooden style by Anttinen Oiva Architects The team at Anttinen Oiva Architects designed Katajanokan Laituri using mass wood aspects. Straight from the start of the global invitational construction competition period in 2020, the manager, insurance provider Varma, and also the support lessee, Stora Enso, highlighted their dynamic ecological worths and weather objectives along with the goal of a lengthy life expectancy, a flexible as well as versatile building, as well as producing the very best use renewable resources and also materials.
As our team travelled the brand-new four-story site, the engineers highlighted exactly how they integrated Finnish and Swedish lumber and also utilized lead-in home and manufacturing methods along with typical as well as maintainable products, exhibiting new-generation lumber building in Finland. The noticeable properties make up cross-laminated lumber (CLT) and laminated veneer lumber (LVL), from which nearly 2,500 wood elements were created. In every, the structure is composed of around 7,600 cubic meters of wood.
An exclusive two-layer option was created for the exterior: the exterior layer of glass, metal, and organic stone, along with a dominantly wood back coating. graphic u00a9 Tuomas Uusheimo Digital Photography ‘ A dual skin layer was actually the very best answer given the architecturally and actually challenging maritime context,’ Selina Anttinen details.’ […] The structure’s appearance changes in various opportunities of the day and lighting states and also matches the various scales and concepts of the neighboring structures coming from the various historical eras.’ Inside the building, hardwood dominates at the same time, exuding the very same strong sense of Nordic nature. At the center of it, an attractive hall with a round, pouring window personifies the design with a circular, wood seat at the same time, a new birch grove greets website visitors in the slender inner yard.
The Katajanokka Boat dock is developed with the next 100 years in thoughts. With the help of its place due to the sea, Katajanokan Laituri likewise works as a flood barrier.touring Katajanokan Laituri|graphic u00a9 designbooma core window|photo u00a9 Kalle Kouhiaimage u00a9 Kalle Kouhiapairing cross-laminated lumber (CLT) as well as laminated veneer lumber (LVL)|image u00a9 Kalle Kouhia.