.touring katajanokan laituri during helsinki concept week 2024 Katajanokan Laituri by Anttinen Oiva Architects is actually the most up to date instance of Finland's new-generation and big timber design, which designboom acquired an extensive scenic tour of during Helsinki Style Week. The distinctive building homes the head workplace of Finnish forestry business Stora Enso, and also the Pier 4 hotels and resort with 164 spaces, featuring coffee shop as well as dining establishment centers available to the public as well as workplace centers suitable for a variety of businesses. This newest spots, now aspect of Helsinki's maritime sky line and also historical Market Square, will certainly likewise organize the brand-new Architecture and also Style Museum as well as soon come to be a hotspot for craft, layout, and convenience. ' The location is actually experiencing a large change, as the outdated port functionalities are mostly moving away and also the coastline gradually ready for passerbies,' share the engineers. Katajanokan Laituri by Anttinen Oiva Architects|graphic u00a9 Kalle Kouhia a new-generation wooden layout through Anttinen Oiva Architects The team at Anttinen Oiva Architects developed Katajanokan Laituri utilizing mass lumber factors. Right from the start of the global invitational construction competitors phase in 2020, the owner, insurance company Varma, and also the anchor renter, Stora Enso, highlighted their progressive ecological values as well as temperature objectives along with the objective of a lengthy lifespan, a flexible and adjustable building, and producing the very best use of renewable resources and also products. As we explored the new four-story site, the designers highlighted how they mixed Finnish as well as Swedish wood as well as made use of pioneering architectural and also production approaches with standard as well as lasting materials, exhibiting new-generation timber construction in Finland. The obvious establishments make up cross-laminated timber (CLT) and laminated laminate lumber (LVL), where practically 2,500 timber components were actually made. In every, the property is composed of approximately 7,600 cubic meters of timber. A special two-layer option was actually built for the exterior: the exterior layer of glass, metallic, and natural stone, with a dominantly wooden back level. photo u00a9 Tuomas Uusheimo Digital Photography ' A double skin layer was the most ideal solution provided the architecturally as well as practically demanding maritime context,' Selina Anttinen details.' [...] The structure's appearance transforms in various opportunities of the time as well as lighting fixtures shapes and also matches the a variety of scales and also motifs of the bordering structures coming from the different historical eras.' Inside the building, hardwood dominates at the same time, exuding the exact same strong sense of Nordic attributes. At the center of it, a captivating hall along with a round, cascading window embodies the architecture with a round, wood seat at the same time, a clean birch stand welcomes guests in the slender inner courtyard. The Katajanokka Boat dock is constructed with the next 100 years in thoughts. Due to its site by the sea, Katajanokan Laituri additionally works as a flooding barrier.touring Katajanokan Laituri|picture u00a9 designbooma central skylight|photo u00a9 Kalle Kouhiaimage u00a9 Kalle Kouhiapairing cross-laminated timber (CLT) and also laminated veneer lumber (LVL)|photo u00a9 Kalle Kouhia.