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VIEW FROM VASKILAHTI
birdview east, highly built stage
FORM The geometry of the project bases on two tilted elongated building masses flapping over each other. These connected masses are geometrically analogic to each other but with their materials, functions and details they form opposites to each other. One earthy perforated Corten steel mass literarly rises from the ground as metro lifts which it enfolds. Besides metro it runs a lot of simple need based functions inside of it (grocery, restaurants, bath, laundry). It attaches to the water, brings people and activities closer to the sea and enriches the boulevard next to it. The other with its lighter visual appearance leans on the top of it and stretches over the road and towards the water with more complex functions and architecture. Colorful boxes push through its glass curtain wall like containers getting wild in a ship. Vertical steel cylinders sustain part of the weight of the building as well as they take care of the natural ventilation and vertical movement inside the building. Despite of its partly floating appearance modular glass building attaches strongly to the urban pedestrian way and its prefabricated blocks form interesting and human scale streetscape.
pedestrian street in highly built state
facade system simplified
”LÄNSIVÄYLÄN PORTTI” Steel studio 2011 & student competition
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