Madetoja Service Center for Elderly People
Pukinmäki, Helsinki, 2005, 2016
The Madetoja Service Center for Elderly People was previously known as the Pukinmäki retirement home, designed by architect’s office Esko Hyvärinen in 1978. The Pukinmäki district in Helsinki has always been very uniform in its visual appearance. The reddish facade made of square prefabricated building units with exposed-aggregate finish were commonplace in the 1970s. Helsinki City had the rental residential buildings in the area renovated and re-clad with brick. The external claddings of the privately owned residential houses in the district have retained their original outlook.
The center is divided into an open plan service section on the ground floor and several residential floors. As the extension allowed the use of a greater ceiling height than in the old building, the assembly hall and dining area were placed here. The lobby, inter-connecting the yard and pedestrian path, and the new large lift with its landing were built on the border between the extension and the old section. The first floor in the old section houses an enhanced-care group home for physically ailing residents while the second and third floors comprise ordinary sheltered housing units. The two top floors are reserved for people with memory disorders. The second floor was altered as a group apartment 2016.
Kirsti Sivén, Asko Takala, project architect: Tuula Nurmi
Team: Sandra Boman, Eero Holopainen, Tapani Lehtinen, Kristiina Timonen, Anniina Kari, Alex Torres, Jonas Malmberg, Suvi Tuuli Korpinen, Niklas Mahlberg, Kaisa Savolainen, Hanna Vikberg
