.travelling katajanokan laituri during helsinki design week 2024 Katajanokan Laituri through Anttinen Oiva Architects is actually the current example of Finland's new-generation and large lumber design, which designboom obtained a considerable tour of during the course of Helsinki Style Week. The distinctive structure homes the scalp workplace of Finnish forestation business Stora Enso, in addition to the Pier 4 accommodation with 164 rooms, consisting of coffee shop as well as bistro resources open up to the general public and office locations suitable for a large variety of services. This latest landmark, currently part of Helsinki's maritime skyline and also historic Market Square, are going to also hold the new Architecture and also Concept Gallery as well as very soon come to be a hotspot for craft, concept, as well as leisure. ' The place is actually undergoing a substantial change, as the outdated slot functionalities are actually partially moving away and also the coastline slowly open up to pedestrians,' discuss the designers. Katajanokan Laituri by Anttinen Oiva Architects|image u00a9 Kalle Kouhia a new-generation timber design by Anttinen Oiva Architects The group at Anttinen Oiva Architects made Katajanokan Laituri utilizing mass wood aspects. Right from the start of the international invitational construction competitors period in 2020, the owner, insurer Varma, as well as the anchor renter, Stora Enso, highlighted their modern ecological values and temperature targets along with the aim of a long life expectancy, an adaptable as well as adjustable structure, and also helping make the very best use of renewable energies as well as components. As our team toured the brand-new four-story landmark, the engineers highlighted just how they blended Finnish as well as Swedish hardwood and also utilized pioneering architectural as well as manufacturing techniques along with traditional and maintainable materials, embodying new-generation lumber construction in Finland. The apparent properties comprise cross-laminated lumber (CLT) as well as laminated laminate lumber (LVL), from which nearly 2,500 wood aspects were actually made. With all, the structure contains around 7,600 cubic gauges of wood. An exclusive two-layer remedy was actually built for the exterior: the exterior level of glass, steel, as well as organic stone, along with a dominantly wood back layer. picture u00a9 Tuomas Uusheimo Digital Photography ' A double skin layer was the greatest remedy offered the architecturally and theoretically tough maritime circumstance,' Selina Anttinen notes.' [...] The property's appearance completely transforms in different times of the time as well as lighting fixtures states and also suits the various scales and also designs of the surrounding buildings coming from the various historic periods.' Inside the structure, lumber controls too, exuding the exact same solid feeling of Nordic nature. At the facility of it, an attractive venue with a round, pouring skylight embodies the design along with a round, timber bench at the same time, a new birch grove greets guests in the slim interior yard. The Katajanokka Boat dock is constructed with the next 100 years in mind. Because of its site due to the ocean, Katajanokan Laituri also 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)|graphic u00a9 Kalle Kouhia.