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Housing: POOK Architects have been chosen for the e-House’s new type of housing area, based on ‘group building’. The first project is located in Appikylä, Helsinki, consiting of ten houses. The owners can choose the layout and materials of their choise from a catalogue through an internet portal. The new type of service gives the opportunity for high quality and affordable way to build.

Architecture: The architecture of the buildings is based on a simple pitchroof forms. The design is closely linked to the masterplan of Alppikylä and the overall aims of the townplan that mainly consists of small scale housing. Each of the houses have a private protected and sunny garden that are a continuation from the main living interior spaces. The apartments have been designed with different layouts and material choises that the new owner can choose specific to their needs.

Execution: The buildings have been designed using prefabricated elements. The prefabricated building components are constructed completely in a factory and then assembled on-site. The method enables a good humidity and quolity control despite weather conditions that would be otherwise unsuitable. The prefabricated components are clad with bricks.

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Site: The site is located at the heart of Porvoo’s valuable seaside milieu. The design cosists of a group of holidayhouses with a multiuse mainbuilding.

Architecture: The seaside view is shaped by the trees and rocks of the beach that surround the pitchroof buildingshapes. The building materials and colours are influenced by the soilid, grey rock, surraouding forest and the local traditional Porvoo seaside building colours. The timber cladding continues to the roof and interior spaces, enhancing the architecture that it otherwise modest and fragmented. The buildings are connected and seperated by greenroofed buildingunits, that are roofed with vegitation and growing medium. The thin sturctures have uniform high pitched roofs; facing to the sea, the pitches create a holistic deisgn within the landscape.

Energy and ecology: The building materials mainly consist of Finnish timber. The walls are well thermally insulated utilising the wood’s hygroscopic properties. On top of the thermal insulation, the smart solutions and control of the building services are intergral within the design. The design principles use the passivehouse standards as a norm, incorporating active and passive solar energy.

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Architecture and use: The buildings form a unified whole by connecting walls enebaling boundaries for privacy. The building masses eneable each appartment to have private bright garden. Efficiently designed appartment sizes range from 52 to 61 hm2 and some of them have a cellar. The design is modern in its open plan layout. The central living spcaes are directly connected to the private terraces or balconies.

Sustainable development: The walls are well thermally insulated and the buildings are well equipped with effiecient heat. The eaves that are integrated within the building volume, protect from the weather and overheating in the summer.

In the marketing of the appartments the images used were visualised by the POOK Architects of the building the was used. All apartments were sold in early 2009.

Construction: Accurately measured and designed the project is located within exciting housing area. The project required builders exceptional accuracy in the construction of the buildings aswell as the garden structures.

Size: 411 brm²
Site: hill
Building materilas: Precut, kerto- liimapuu vanerijäykisteinen
Other: Wood Prize 2007 public vote winner Finland

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Location: The site is located in North Espoo; historically and culturally important countryside a hill facing the west. The existings grain of the area is loosely built and the surrounding buildings are mainly industrial their function mainly serving for farming. The sites rockly western hill divides into two: the front hill connects to a fabric like field whilist the back of the site is typical Finnish forest with its bare forest, linche convered rocky ground.

Architecture: The simple pitch roof masses was a response from the overall architecture of the area. The outside spaces were formed by division where at the active frontyard the entrance, childrens playground, lunch terrace and the workshop are located. The mainbuilding frames and covers the mediative, senstive, upperhill where the seperate sauna is located. The mainbuilding contains living and officespaces where that are connected with a communal living space.

Test foundation: The building is designed as ventilated wooden rockystructures that is partly imbeded in the rock. The underground wooden structures are ventilated with the help of wooden grill covers, the natural accumulation of snow is utilised in the ventilation throughout the different seasons. The structure of the building is gluelaminated wood that is connected structually to plywood.The joints are done by WT-screws.

Energy and sustainable develeopment: The building materials are Finnish tiber and the thermally efficient walls have been achieved with celluloce insulation. The building has been equipped with geothermal heating inside the rock, fireplaces and efficient heat storage. Ventilation is directed depending on the timing of the use of the spaces.

Project: Housing development
Client: The City of Riga and Baltic Development Consultancy (2007)
Location: Latvia, Mangalsala
Size: 240 000 m²
Site: Riverbank and seaside area
Design team: Katariina Rautiala and Pentti Raiski of POOK Architects, Ville Hara and Anu Puustinen of Avanto Architects, and assistants Xsania and Harald Helfrics

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Mangansala peninsula is situated in the Daugava mouth of Baltic sea in Riga, Latvia.

The main attraction of the peninsula is its exceptional nature and different types of water and coast:

1. BALTIC SEA

Beach and dunes – in the future the dune area is preserved as it is, recreational use of the area is enhanced.

2. RIVER DAUGAVA

Heavily treated port and industrial area – in the future the riverbank can be designed as a public marina with boulevard and recreational facilities. There can be exclusive riverside housing of up to 5 levels.

3. VECDAUGAVA

Natura 2000 protection area with many species of bird and reed – in the future there can be a nature path and a small motor boat marina for the new Mangansala housing area.

4. NEW CANALS

People are offered contact to the water just next to the houses. Residents have the possibility of keeping their private boats  next to their apartment.

It is very important to offer public accessibility to all these water areas and possibility to walk around the peninsula.

Project: Private home
Client: Private | completed 2007
Location: Mäntsälä
Size: 195 + 50 + 26 brm²
Site: Hill
Building material: Timber

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Project: Brick house
Client: Private / completed 2010
Location: Espoo, Finland
Size: 179 kem2
Site: slope
Building material: brick

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An adaptable and flexible home for a family of six. The solution has been to combine the kitchen, dining and living areas allowing them to expand and mutate in relation to the user’s needs. Thanks to the narrow frame walls the dwellings have been designed as light and portable. The number of residential rooms can be changed and resized.

Car parking and access is at street level below the floor level. Residence, kitchen and living rooms are located at a higher level and are linked to the calm courtyard and park.

The house can be changed into a variety of arrangements to allow for varying degrees of privacy.

The lower layer is the so-called mixed layer with a living room, and living spaces to serve. This layer can function as AuPair-spaces, and later when the children become independent as it has its own entrance thus expanding the life cycle of the dwelling.

Sustainable development and energy

The building materials are durable and require very little maintenance. This leads to reduced running costs. The exterior walls and roof are well insulated and building is equipped with an efficient heat recovery system. The window openings are designed taking into account their ease of use as well as the sun angles and solar energy in order to protect from extraordinary heat loads.

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Urban Setting

Volumetric surroundings of the site are uniquely delicate, small, detailed and fractured – and at the same time dominated by few vertical elements. We wanted to respect the small volumetric scale, existing or potential public paths and green areas. Thus creating a small “village” that happens in two levels; creating new accessible public spaces that can provide activities from morning to evening in various temperatures. We wanted to create spaces for spontaneous social contact and fluent life.

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Site and use: The site where the building is located in Pohjois Tapiola, already built area. The neighbourhood mainly consists of 70’s flat roofed brickhouses. The entrance of the building is located in the direction of the road. The massing of the building creates private, covered internal atrium and more closed outershell.

Use: The building has been designed to home three generations. The apartments are connected with an open entrancezone that is connected to the private spaces and cellarlevel. The seperation of the side building that is completely independently used as an apartment is possible. The central living spaces open up and the uses surroudn the internal atrium. In this way, the use of large windows – maintaining privacy – and the gardens natural use as a continuation from the internal spaces. The main living room spaces has a large roof window that is used as a way to create natural and artificial light. The buildings material choise, brick, aims for endurable and free from maintanance.