.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-scale timber architecture, which designboom received an extensive excursion of during Helsinki Concept Week. The attractive property homes the scalp office of Finnish forestry provider Stora Enso, in addition to the Pier 4 hotel with 164 spaces, featuring coffee shop as well as dining establishment resources ready for the general public as well as workplace centers appropriate for a wide variety of services. This most recent landmark, now part of Helsinki's maritime horizon and historic Market Square, will definitely also host the new Construction and also Style Museum and soon become a hotspot for art, concept, and leisure. ' The area is actually going through a massive improvement, as the aged port functions are actually partially relocating away and also the shoreline progressively open up to passerbies,' discuss the designers. Katajanokan Laituri by Anttinen Oiva Architects|photo u00a9 Kalle Kouhia a new-generation wooden layout through Anttinen Oiva Architects The group at Anttinen Oiva Architects created Katajanokan Laituri using mass hardwood factors. Right from the start of the global invitational architecture competition stage in 2020, the manager, insurance provider Varma, as well as the anchor renter, Stora Enso, highlighted their progressive environmental worths as well as weather targets along with the intention of a long life expectancy, a flexible as well as adaptable structure, and producing the most effective use of renewable energies and materials. As we toured the brand new four-story landmark, the architects highlighted exactly how they incorporated Finnish and also Swedish lumber and also used lead-in architectural and also manufacturing approaches along with typical and lasting components, exhibiting new-generation wood development in Finland. The noticeable buildings make up cross-laminated wood (CLT) as well as laminated veneer lumber (LVL), where just about 2,500 timber components were actually produced. With all, the property contains approximately 7,600 cubic meters of hardwood. An unique two-layer service was actually developed for the front: the outer coating of glass, metallic, and natural rock, with a dominantly wooden back level. photo u00a9 Tuomas Uusheimo Digital Photography ' A dual skin was actually the greatest answer given the architecturally and also actually daunting maritime context,' Selina Anttinen notes.' [...] The structure's look completely transforms in different opportunities of the day and also lights shapes and also accommodates the different ranges as well as themes of the neighboring buildings coming from the different historical times.' Inside the structure, timber dominates at the same time, exuding the very same powerful feeling of Nordic nature. At the facility of it, an attractive venue along with a round, pouring skylight expresses the construction along with a circular, wood seat in the meantime, a clean birch stand welcomes visitors in the narrow internal courtyard. The Katajanokka Boat dock is actually developed along with the following one hundred years in thoughts. With the help of its own site due to the ocean, Katajanokan Laituri also performs as a flood barrier.touring Katajanokan Laituri|picture u00a9 designbooma core skylight|image u00a9 Kalle Kouhiaimage u00a9 Kalle Kouhiapairing cross-laminated timber (CLT) and laminated laminate lumber (LVL)|picture u00a9 Kalle Kouhia.