.travelling katajanokan laituri throughout helsinki design week 2024 Katajanokan Laituri by Anttinen Oiva Architects is the latest instance of Finland's new-generation and big lumber style, which designboom obtained a significant scenic tour of during Helsinki Concept Week. The captivating structure homes the scalp workplace of Finnish forestation business Stora Enso, along with the Pier 4 lodging along with 164 rooms, featuring cafu00e9 and also restaurant centers available to the public and also office locations suited for a vast array of businesses. This most current site, currently component of Helsinki's maritime horizon and also historical Market Square, are going to likewise hold the new Architecture as well as Layout Museum and also quickly come to be a hotspot for fine art, layout, and also convenience. ' The region is actually going through a massive transformation, as the outdated slot features are actually partially relocating away as well as the coastline steadily open up to pedestrians,' discuss the designers. Katajanokan Laituri by Anttinen Oiva Architects|image u00a9 Kalle Kouhia a new-generation wooden concept by Anttinen Oiva Architects The crew at Anttinen Oiva Architects created Katajanokan Laituri utilizing mass wood components. Straight from the start of the international invitational construction competitors stage in 2020, the owner, insurance provider Varma, and the support lessee, Stora Enso, highlighted their modern ecological worths and temperature goals along with the goal of a long life-span, a flexible and also adjustable building, and also creating the most ideal use renewable resources and materials. As our company travelled the brand new four-story spots, the engineers highlighted exactly how they incorporated Finnish and Swedish timber and also made use of introducing building as well as manufacturing techniques with standard as well as maintainable components, embodying new-generation timber construction in Finland. The noticeable structures make up cross-laminated hardwood (CLT) and also laminated veneer lumber (LVL), from which virtually 2,500 wood aspects were produced. In each, the building includes around 7,600 cubic gauges of wood. An exclusive two-layer answer was established for the facade: the external level of glass, metallic, and natural stone, with a dominantly timber back coating. image u00a9 Tuomas Uusheimo Photography ' A double skin was actually the most effective remedy provided the architecturally and theoretically daunting maritime situation,' Selina Anttinen keep in minds.' [...] The building's look enhances in various opportunities of the time as well as lighting fixtures conditions and also matches the a variety of ranges and designs of the encompassing properties from the different historical eras.' Inside the building, hardwood dominates too, exuding the same strong feeling of Nordic attributes. At the center of it, an attractive venue with an around, pouring window expresses the design with a circular, wood seat on the other hand, a clean birch grove welcomes website visitors in the slim internal court. The Katajanokka Pier is developed with the upcoming 100 years in mind. With the help of its own area by the ocean, Katajanokan Laituri likewise works as a flood barrier.touring Katajanokan Laituri|photo u00a9 designbooma central skylight|photo u00a9 Kalle Kouhiaimage u00a9 Kalle Kouhiapairing cross-laminated lumber (CLT) and also laminated veneer lumber (LVL)|photo u00a9 Kalle Kouhia.