.touring katajanokan laituri during helsinki design week 2024 Katajanokan Laituri by Anttinen Oiva Architects is actually the current example of Finland’s new-generation and also large hardwood style, which designboom got a substantial tour of throughout Helsinki Design Week. The attractive building properties the scalp office of Finnish forestry company Stora Enso, as well as the Pier 4 hotel with 164 areas, including cafu00e9 as well as restaurant facilities open up to the general public and workplace resources suitable for a wide range of businesses. This most up-to-date landmark, now portion of Helsinki’s maritime sky line and also historical Market Square, are going to additionally organize the new Architecture and Layout Gallery and also very soon become a hotspot for art, concept, and also convenience.
‘ The location is looking at a massive change, as the aged slot functions are actually to some extent relocating away and the shoreline progressively ready for passerbies,’ share the engineers. Katajanokan Laituri through Anttinen Oiva Architects|photo u00a9 Kalle Kouhia a new-generation wooden style by Anttinen Oiva Architects The crew at Anttinen Oiva Architects made Katajanokan Laituri making use of mass lumber factors. Straight from the beginning of the worldwide invitational architecture competitors stage in 2020, the proprietor, insurance provider Varma, and also the support renter, Stora Enso, highlighted their modern ecological values and weather goals along with the intention of a lengthy life expectancy, a versatile and also adaptable property, and also creating the greatest use renewable energies and materials.
As our company visited the brand-new four-story landmark, the engineers highlighted how they combined Finnish as well as Swedish hardwood and made use of pioneering architectural and also production procedures along with typical as well as maintainable products, showing new-generation wood development in Finland. The noticeable structures consist of cross-laminated lumber (CLT) and also laminated veneer lumber (LVL), from which just about 2,500 wooden factors were produced. With all, the property is composed of around 7,600 cubic meters of timber.
An unique two-layer service was established for the front: the external coating of glass, steel, and also all-natural stone, along with a dominantly wood back coating. picture u00a9 Tuomas Uusheimo Photography ‘ A double skin was actually the best service given the architecturally as well as theoretically daunting maritime context,’ Selina Anttinen details.’ […] The property’s appeal completely transforms in various times of the time and also lighting fixtures shapes and accommodates the various scales as well as motifs of the bordering structures from the different historic eras.’ Inside the property, wood dominates as well, oozing the exact same powerful sense of Nordic attribute. At the center of it, an attractive hall along with an around, plunging window symbolizes the design along with a circular, timber seat at the same time, a fresh birch grove welcomes site visitors in the slender internal yard.
The Katajanokka Boat dock is created with the following 100 years in mind. Due to its own area due to the sea, Katajanokan Laituri likewise operates as a flood barrier.touring Katajanokan Laituri|photo u00a9 designbooma core window|image u00a9 Kalle Kouhiaimage u00a9 Kalle Kouhiapairing cross-laminated wood (CLT) and also laminated laminate lumber (LVL)|graphic u00a9 Kalle Kouhia.