.visiting katajanokan laituri during helsinki layout week 2024 Katajanokan Laituri through Anttinen Oiva Architects is actually the most recent instance of Finland's new-generation and also large wood architecture, which designboom acquired a significant excursion of throughout Helsinki Concept Full Week. The attractive building properties the head office of Finnish forestry provider Stora Enso, in addition to the Boat dock 4 resort with 164 rooms, including coffee shop and restaurant centers open to the public as well as office facilities ideal for a wide variety of organizations. This latest site, now component of Helsinki's maritime skyline and historic Market Square, will additionally organize the brand-new Architecture and also Layout Gallery as well as soon become a hotspot for craft, style, as well as leisure. ' The region is actually undergoing a massive transformation, as the old port functionalities are actually partially moving away and the coastline progressively open up to passerbies,' share the architects. Katajanokan Laituri by Anttinen Oiva Architects|photo u00a9 Kalle Kouhia a new-generation wooden design by Anttinen Oiva Architects The staff at Anttinen Oiva Architects designed Katajanokan Laituri utilizing mass hardwood elements. Straight from the beginning of the worldwide invitational design competition stage in 2020, the owner, insurer Varma, and also the support occupant, Stora Enso, highlighted their modern ecological worths as well as weather objectives along with the objective of a lengthy life expectancy, a flexible as well as versatile building, as well as helping make the most effective use of renewable resources as well as products. As we visited the brand-new four-story spots, the designers highlighted just how they blended Finnish and Swedish wood and made use of pioneering architectural as well as production techniques with traditional and also lasting components, showing new-generation wood building and construction in Finland. The obvious properties comprise cross-laminated wood (CLT) as well as laminated veneer lumber (LVL), from which almost 2,500 timber components were produced. With all, the structure consists of roughly 7,600 cubic gauges of hardwood. A special two-layer solution was actually established for the front: the external level of glass, metal, and also organic stone, along with a dominantly wood back layer. image u00a9 Tuomas Uusheimo Digital Photography ' A dual skin was the greatest service offered the architecturally as well as practically demanding maritime context,' Selina Anttinen keep in minds.' [...] The property's look completely transforms in various times of the time as well as lighting fixtures states as well as suits the several ranges and also motifs of the surrounding buildings coming from the various historic times.' Inside the building, hardwood controls too, exuding the same solid sense of Nordic nature. At the center of it, an eye-catching hall with a sphere, plunging window embodies the construction with a round, timber bench in the meantime, a new birch grove greets website visitors in the narrow internal courtyard. The Katajanokka Boat dock is actually created along with the next 100 years in thoughts. With the help of its own location by the sea, Katajanokan Laituri likewise performs as a flood barrier.touring Katajanokan Laituri|graphic u00a9 designbooma central window|picture u00a9 Kalle Kouhiaimage u00a9 Kalle Kouhiapairing cross-laminated hardwood (CLT) and also laminated laminate lumber (LVL)|picture u00a9 Kalle Kouhia.