project: Tree House
client: Private | completed 2011
location: House Kekkapää
site: Birch
material: recycled components and wood

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Treehouse Kekkapää: The treehouse was completed and opened 8.8.2011. The building is made of recycled material and makes use of mast-plywood bracing.

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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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Cityscape and architecture

The bridge is a sculptural piece set in the surrounding city. The bridge is also visible from the river and the beach, the bridge takes shape as a peaceful and distinctive original in a series of bridges.  Linnankatu and the Eastern Shore street height drive the bridge and it is considered subordinate to the cityscape. The bridge deck rises slightly below street level and is lined with solid structural crash barriers.

Lighting is integrated into the bridge deck at the inside of about 1.2 meters in height. The underside of the bridge is the major façade to pedestrians and boaters. Therefore the wood surfaces are illuminated from the bottom.

Structure

The bridge has a total span of over 90 meters and a width of 20m. The bridge is divided into two with an intermediate support. Finnish timber can be used for the bridges construction.

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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.

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A unique field project located in the heart of Espoo.  A new building located in Tapiola Golf club for activities, sports facilities, welfare/wellness services and supporting activities, sports equipment shop, restaurant and bar facilities, as well as technical and storage facilities. The new building is located on a golf course within a conservation area.

For more information about the project visit: www.tapiolagolf.fi

Project: Sports and Cultural Centre
Client: The City of Espoo/invited competition
Location: Espoo / Tapiola
Size: 600brm²
Site: Edge of park and football field
Building material: Graphic Concrete
Result: Limited architectural competition / 1 st price
Design team: Katariina Rautiala and Pentti Raisk

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The city of Espoo (2nd largest city of Finland) organized a limited architectural competition of a Café-dressing rooms and maintenance facilities building on Tapionkenttä sports field. The site is located on a demanding urban connection point between different areas.

The building is located in the protected central area of Tapiola Garden city. The site is bordered by a church and park, Tapiola school and sport activities as well as the cultural centre of Tapiola.

The aim of the architectural volume was sculptural minimalism, with a touch of playfulness.

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.

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Water Tower of Kerava, Finland 2001-2002

Open Architectural Competition

The jury approved 186 anonymous proposals to participate.

Our aim was to create a rational sculpture that would reflect the dynamics of water. The structure is based on three hyperbolic paraboloids that form the load bearing walls. The tower is ~53m tall and is clad with sheets of aluminium.