.visiting katajanokan laituri during the course of helsinki design week 2024 Katajanokan Laituri through Anttinen Oiva Architects is actually the most up to date example of Finland’s new-generation and also large-scale lumber architecture, which designboom obtained an extensive trip of in the course of Helsinki Layout Week. The stunning building residences the scalp workplace of Finnish forestation business Stora Enso, and also the Pier 4 hotels and resort along with 164 rooms, consisting of coffee shop as well as bistro resources open up to the public and office resources suitable for a large variety of organizations. This newest spots, currently part of Helsinki’s maritime skyline as well as historic Market Square, will definitely additionally host the brand-new Construction as well as Concept Museum and also very soon end up being a hotspot for craft, style, and recreation.
‘ The location is going through a massive change, as the old port functionalities are actually to some extent moving away and also the shoreline progressively open up to pedestrians,’ discuss the engineers. Katajanokan Laituri through Anttinen Oiva Architects|image u00a9 Kalle Kouhia a new-generation wood layout through Anttinen Oiva Architects The staff at Anttinen Oiva Architects designed Katajanokan Laituri utilizing mass hardwood elements. Right from the start of the international invitational architecture competition stage in 2020, the owner, insurer Varma, as well as the support resident, Stora Enso, highlighted their modern environmental worths and also environment goals with the goal of a long life-span, a flexible as well as versatile structure, and also producing the most effective use of renewable resources and also products.
As our company travelled the new four-story site, the designers highlighted just how they combined Finnish as well as Swedish wood and utilized introducing building and also production approaches with traditional and sustainable components, showing new-generation hardwood construction in Finland. The noticeable buildings comprise cross-laminated wood (CLT) as well as laminated veneer lumber (LVL), from which almost 2,500 timber elements were helped make. In each, the building contains about 7,600 cubic meters of hardwood.
An unique two-layer service was built for the exterior: the external level of glass, metallic, and also organic rock, with a dominantly wood back layer. photo u00a9 Tuomas Uusheimo Digital Photography ‘ A dual skin layer was the most effective option offered the architecturally and also technically challenging maritime context,’ Selina Anttinen details.’ […] The structure’s appeal enhances in different times of the time and also lights shapes as well as fits the numerous ranges as well as themes of the surrounding buildings coming from the various historical times.’ Inside the building, timber dominates also, oozing the exact same tough feeling of Nordic attributes. At the facility of it, an appealing hall along with an around, pouring window symbolizes the design along with a round, wooden bench in the meantime, a clean birch grove greets guests in the slender internal courtyard.
The Katajanokka Boat dock is constructed with the next 100 years in thoughts. Due to its place by the ocean, Katajanokan Laituri additionally works as a flooding barrier.touring Katajanokan Laituri|image u00a9 designbooma main skylight|image u00a9 Kalle Kouhiaimage u00a9 Kalle Kouhiapairing cross-laminated hardwood (CLT) and also laminated veneer lumber (LVL)|picture u00a9 Kalle Kouhia.