.touring katajanokan laituri during helsinki style week 2024 Katajanokan Laituri through Anttinen Oiva Architects is actually the latest example of Finland’s new-generation as well as large-scale timber design, which designboom got a significant scenic tour of during the course of Helsinki Style Week. The attractive structure houses the scalp workplace of Finnish forestry business Stora Enso, in addition to the Pier 4 hotel along with 164 rooms, including coffee shop and also bistro centers open up to the public as well as workplace facilities suitable for a large range of services. This most recent landmark, right now part of Helsinki’s maritime sky line as well as historical Market Square, will additionally throw the brand new Architecture and also Style Gallery as well as very soon become a hotspot for craft, design, and also recreation.
‘ The area is going through a huge makeover, as the aged port features are actually partly moving away and also the coastline gradually opens to passerbies,’ share the designers. Katajanokan Laituri by Anttinen Oiva Architects|graphic u00a9 Kalle Kouhia a new-generation wood layout through Anttinen Oiva Architects The group at Anttinen Oiva Architects designed Katajanokan Laituri using mass timber factors. Right from the beginning of the international invitational architecture competitors period in 2020, the proprietor, insurance provider Varma, and also the anchor tenant, Stora Enso, highlighted their progressive ecological market values and also environment objectives along with the goal of a long lifespan, a pliable and adjustable structure, and also helping make the very best use of renewable resources and also products.
As we toured the brand new four-story site, the designers highlighted how they combined Finnish as well as Swedish timber as well as made use of lead-in architectural and also manufacturing techniques with traditional as well as sustainable products, exhibiting new-generation lumber building in Finland. The noticeable structures make up cross-laminated lumber (CLT) as well as laminated laminate lumber (LVL), from which almost 2,500 wooden aspects were actually made. With all, the building is composed of approximately 7,600 cubic meters of lumber.
A special two-layer service was actually developed for the exterior: the outer level of glass, steel, as well as all-natural rock, with a dominantly timber back level. picture u00a9 Tuomas Uusheimo Photography ‘ A dual skin was the best remedy offered the architecturally and practically daunting maritime circumstance,’ Selina Anttinen keep in minds.’ […] The property’s look transforms in different times of the day as well as lighting states and fits the various ranges and designs of the surrounding buildings from the different historical times.’ Inside the structure, hardwood dominates as well, exuding the same powerful feeling of Nordic attribute. At the center of it, an eye-catching venue with a sphere, plunging skylight embodies the architecture along with a circular, wooden bench in the meantime, a clean birch stand greets guests in the slim internal court.
The Katajanokka Boat dock is built along with the next 100 years in thoughts. With the help of its site due to the ocean, Katajanokan Laituri additionally operates as a flooding barrier.touring Katajanokan Laituri|image u00a9 designbooma main skylight|graphic u00a9 Kalle Kouhiaimage u00a9 Kalle Kouhiapairing cross-laminated wood (CLT) and also laminated laminate lumber (LVL)|image u00a9 Kalle Kouhia.