.exploring katajanokan laituri during helsinki concept full week 2024 Katajanokan Laituri through Anttinen Oiva Architects is the most recent example of Finland's new-generation and also large-scale timber architecture, which designboom received a considerable excursion of during the course of Helsinki Design Full Week. The eye-catching structure residences the scalp workplace of Finnish forestry company Stora Enso, and also the Pier 4 hotel along with 164 spaces, consisting of cafu00e9 and restaurant facilities open to everyone and workplace facilities suited for a vast array of companies. This most up-to-date spots, currently aspect of Helsinki's maritime horizon as well as historic Market Square, will certainly also host the brand new Architecture and Style Museum as well as very soon end up being a hotspot for art, design, and also leisure. ' The region is undergoing an enormous transformation, as the outdated slot functionalities are actually partially relocating away and the shoreline slowly open up to passerbies,' share the architects. Katajanokan Laituri through Anttinen Oiva Architects|graphic u00a9 Kalle Kouhia a new-generation wooden layout through Anttinen Oiva Architects The crew at Anttinen Oiva Architects made Katajanokan Laituri utilizing mass wood components. Straight from the start of the worldwide invitational architecture competition phase in 2020, the proprietor, insurance company Varma, and also the support renter, Stora Enso, highlighted their dynamic ecological market values and climate goals with the purpose of a lengthy life expectancy, an adaptable and also adjustable building, as well as helping make the greatest use renewable resources and materials. As we visited the new four-story landmark, the engineers highlighted how they blended Finnish and also Swedish lumber and made use of pioneering building as well as production strategies with standard as well as sustainable products, showing new-generation hardwood development in Finland. The noticeable buildings consist of cross-laminated wood (CLT) and also laminated veneer lumber (LVL), where practically 2,500 wooden factors were actually helped make. With all, the property consists of around 7,600 cubic gauges of timber. An exclusive two-layer solution was actually developed for the front: the external level of glass, metallic, as well as organic rock, with a dominantly wooden back layer. photo u00a9 Tuomas Uusheimo Photography ' A double skin was the greatest remedy given the architecturally and also technically daunting maritime circumstance,' Selina Anttinen keep in minds.' [...] The property's appeal transforms in different opportunities of the day and also lights shapes and also accommodates the different scales and also designs of the neighboring properties coming from the different historical eras.' Inside the property, timber dominates at the same time, exuding the same solid sense of Nordic attribute. At the center of it, an attractive hall with a round, plunging window personifies the design with a circular, wood seat in the meantime, a clean birch grove greets website visitors in the slim inner court. The Katajanokka Pier is created with the upcoming 100 years in thoughts. With the help of its own area by the ocean, Katajanokan Laituri likewise operates as a flood barrier.touring Katajanokan Laituri|graphic 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.