Myrskylintu Housing
Aurinkolahti, Helsinki, 2004
The landscape context with opening views and the consequence of outdoor spaces are essential elements for the seaside architecture. The increasing size and significance of the outdoor rooms enables the exploitation of small scale qualities. The Myrskylintu ( Fulmar) apartments are a result of such vista analysis and outdoor space refinement. The indoor spaces embrace a retracted balcony with carefully studied diagonal views.
The spatial potentiality of block apartments has been taken often as small or even not existing. When the starting point of design is a single apartment with spatial order, views and light, we are in a way facing the fundaments of architecture, the sensitive understanding that lead the first builders to put windows on every wall to let the daylight go round. The upper floors with exceptional room height or two-floor apartments allow special living spaces. Myrskylintu housing employed attic-building order already during new-construction stage.
Myrskylintu has been introduced in the Arkkitehti 1/2007, (The Finnish Architectural Review), the article covering Aurinkolahti-district.
The town plan is based on the international invited Aurinkolahti town planning competition 1995. Our office got 2nd price in the competition.
Kirsti Sivén, Asko Takala, project architect: Tapani Lehtinen
Team: Niklas Mahlberg, Juha Sundqvist, Alex Torres, Kaisa Savolainen, Eero Holopainen, Riku Rönkä, Kristiina Timonen, Jonas Malmberg
