.travelling katajanokan laituri during the course of helsinki concept week 2024 Katajanokan Laituri by Anttinen Oiva Architects is the most up to date instance of Finland's new-generation and massive wood style, which designboom acquired a substantial trip of throughout Helsinki Design Week. The appealing building properties the head office of Finnish forestation company Stora Enso, and also the Pier 4 resort with 164 spaces, featuring coffee shop and restaurant locations open up to everyone as well as office locations suitable for a wide variety of companies. This latest site, now portion of Helsinki's maritime skyline and also historic Market Square, will likewise host the new Construction as well as Style Gallery and very soon end up being a hotspot for art, style, as well as leisure. ' The location is undergoing a substantial improvement, as the aged port features are to some extent moving away as well as the coastline steadily available to passerbies,' discuss the architects. Katajanokan Laituri by Anttinen Oiva Architects|image u00a9 Kalle Kouhia a new-generation wooden design by Anttinen Oiva Architects The team at Anttinen Oiva Architects made Katajanokan Laituri making use of mass lumber elements. Right from the beginning of the worldwide invitational design competitors period in 2020, the manager, insurance provider Varma, and the anchor tenant, Stora Enso, highlighted their dynamic environmental market values as well as climate goals along with the objective of a lengthy life expectancy, a pliable as well as adjustable property, and also producing the greatest use renewable resources as well as products. As our experts travelled the new four-story landmark, the architects highlighted exactly how they blended Finnish and also Swedish hardwood as well as used pioneering home and production methods with typical as well as sustainable materials, showing new-generation timber development in Finland. The visible buildings make up cross-laminated wood (CLT) and also laminated laminate lumber (LVL), where just about 2,500 wood aspects were actually made. In all, the property features around 7,600 cubic gauges of wood. An unique two-layer option was cultivated for the front: the external layer of glass, metal, and all-natural stone, with a dominantly timber back coating. image u00a9 Tuomas Uusheimo Photography ' A dual skin was actually the best answer offered the architecturally and also technically daunting maritime context,' Selina Anttinen keep in minds.' [...] The building's appeal changes in various opportunities of the day and also lights states and fits the numerous ranges and also motifs of the surrounding properties coming from the various historical times.' Inside the property, lumber controls also, exuding the same tough sense of Nordic attributes. At the facility of it, a stunning hall with an around, cascading window personifies the architecture along with a rounded, timber bench at the same time, a clean birch stand welcomes website visitors in the slim internal court. The Katajanokka Pier is created along with the upcoming one hundred years in mind. Thanks to its own area due to the ocean, Katajanokan Laituri also functions as a flood barrier.touring Katajanokan Laituri|graphic u00a9 designbooma central window|photo u00a9 Kalle Kouhiaimage u00a9 Kalle Kouhiapairing cross-laminated timber (CLT) and also laminated veneer lumber (LVL)|image u00a9 Kalle Kouhia.